² tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”

² tn Heb “for near is my deliverance to enter, and my vindication [or “righteousness”] to be revealed.”

² tn The participle מְגַלֶּה (m^egalleh) means “uncovering” or “revealing” secrets.

⁵ tn Heb “your name.” God’s “name” refers here to his reputation and revealed character.

³ sn The passive verbs revealed and made known suggest the revelation comes from God. The text is both a warning about bad things being revealed and an encouragement that good things will be made known.

¹ tc The MT reads גֹּל (gol, “commit”) from the root גָּלַל (galal, “to roll”). The LXX and Tg. Prov 16:3 have “reveal” as if the root were גָּלָה (galah, “to reveal”).

¹ tn Aram “a revealer of mysteries.” The phrase serves as a quasi-title for God in Daniel.

¹ sn The imagery refers to the way or path of truth, as revealed by God to the prophet.

¹ tn Heb “it was revealed in my ears [by?] the Lord of Heaven’s Armies [traditionally, “the Lord of hosts”].”

¹ sn A shrewd person knows how to use knowledge wisely, and restrains himself from revealing all he knows.

⁶ tn Here too the form is the cohortative, stressing the resolution of wisdom to reveal herself to the one who responds.

¹ sn Psalm 98. The psalmist summons the whole earth to praise God because he reveals his justice and delivers Israel.

² tn Heb “and your majesty to their sons.” The verb “be revealed” is understood by ellipsis in the second line.

² sn I.e., be revealed by God. The passive voice verbs here (“be revealed,” be made known”) see the revelation as coming from God. The text is both a warning about bad things being revealed and an encouragement that good things will be made known, though the stress with the images of darkness and what is hidden in vv. 2-3 is on the attempt to conceal.

¹ tn The Greek text emphasizes the contrast between vv. 2b and 3a: God promised this long ago but now has revealed it in his own time.

¹ tn Or “He did this by revealing”; Grk “making known, revealing.” Verse 9 begins with a participle dependent on “lavished” in v. 8; the adverbial participle could be understood as temporal (“when he revealed”), which would be contemporaneous to the action of the finite verb “lavished,” or as means (“by revealing”). The participle has been translated here with the temporal nuance to allow for means to also be a possible interpretation. If the translation focused instead upon means, the temporal nuance would be lost as the time frame for the action of the participle would become indistinct.

³ sn The disciples still expected at this point that Jesus, as Messiah, was going to reveal his identity as such to the world (cf. 7:4).

³ sn I must stay. Jesus revealed the necessity of his associating with people like Zacchaeus (5:31-32). This act of fellowship indicated acceptance.

⁶ sn A quotation from Isa 6:9. Thus parables both conceal or reveal depending on whether one is open to hearing what they teach.

² sn The remark the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed shows that how people respond to Jesus indicates where their hearts really are before God.