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Psalm 40:10
I have not hidden 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 assembly.
8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.
10I have not hidden 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 assembly.
11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
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The movement from the heart to the great assembly raises the question of how faith in God's faithfulness becomes something others can hear.
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Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written …Speech matters in both passages: Joshua must keep the law on his lips, and the psalmist declares God's faithfulness.
Psalm 118:17I will not die, but live, and declare the LORD’s works.Both psalms speak of declaring what God has done, with Psalm 40 naming his faithfulness and salvation.
Romans 1:16–17For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the …Both speakers speak openly of salvation: the psalmist declares God's salvation, and Paul is unashamed of the Good News of Christ.
Acts 20:20–21how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,Both speakers describe refusing to hold back what others need to hear, whether before the assembly or from house to house.
Psalm 48:9We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.God's loving kindness is the shared subject, declared before the great assembly in one psalm and pondered in the temple in the other.
Hebrews 2:12saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the congregation I will sing your praise.”Both passages describe declaring God's character or name among a gathered people.
1 Thessalonians 5:24He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.God's faithfulness is declared in the psalm and affirmed in the assurance that the one who calls will act.
Psalm 89:16In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.Both psalms name God's righteousness, which the speaker declares in Psalm 40 and the people benefit from in Psalm 89.
Jeremiah 42:4Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever …Both speakers reject concealment: the psalmist has declared God's truth, and Jeremiah promises to withhold nothing of God's answer.
1 Timothy 1:15The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.Both passages speak of salvation, with the psalm declaring God's salvation and the letter naming Christ Jesus as the one who saves sinners.
Romans 10:9–10that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.Both passages mention the heart, spoken declaration, and salvation; Romans specifies confessing Jesus as Lord and believing God raised him.
Psalm 96:2Sing to the LORD! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day!Declaring God's salvation joins these psalms: one reports having done so, while the other urges proclamation from day to day.
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You need no story of a trouble-free life to speak of God's faithfulness. The same psalmist who declares God's loving kindness asks for it to preserve him in the next verse.
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