9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.


In Context

6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.

7 Then said I, See, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yes, your law is within my heart.

9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.

10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great congregation.

11 Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

Psalm 40:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

40:9I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, as you know, O Lord .

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

40:9I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips : O Lord, thou knowest it.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

40:9I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:9I have published righteousness in the great congregation: behold, I have not withheld my lips, Jehovah, thou knowest.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

40:9I have published righteousness in the great congregation; lo, I will not refrain my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

40:9I have proclaimed tidings of righteousness In the great assembly, lo, my lips I restrain not, O Jehovah, Thou hast known.