Mazmur 22:14

22:14 My strength drains away like water; ¹ 

all my bones are dislocated;

my heart ²  is like wax;

it melts away inside me.

Mazmur 40:9

40:9 I have told the great assembly ³  about your justice. ⁴ 

Look! I spare no words! ⁵ 

O Lord, you know this is true.

[22:14]  ¹ tn Heb “like water I am poured out.”

[22:14]  ² sn The heart is viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s strength and courage.

[40:9]  ³ sn The great assembly is also mentioned in Pss 22:25 and 35:18.

[40:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “I proclaim justice in the great assembly.” Though “justice” appears without a pronoun here, the Lord’s just acts are in view (see v. 10). His “justice” (צֶדֶק, tsedeq) is here the deliverance that originates in his justice; he protects and vindicates the one whose cause is just.

[40:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “Look! My lips I do not restrain.”