American King James Version
" I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know. "
— Psalms 40:9, American King James Version
“I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.”
“I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest. ”
“I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.”
“I have told the great assembly about your justice. Look! I spare no words! O LORD, you know this is true.”
“They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?”
“I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words.”
“I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.”
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
Then said I, See, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
I delight to do your will, O my God: yes, your law is within my heart.
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
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.
Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.