Mazmur 40:1

Psalm 40 ¹ 

For the music director; By David, a psalm.

40:1 I relied completely ²  on the Lord,

and he turned toward me

and heard my cry for help.

Yesaya 8:17

8:17 I will wait patiently for the Lord,

who has rejected the family of Jacob; ³ 

I will wait for him.

Yesaya 26:8

26:8 Yes, as your judgments unfold, ⁴ 

O Lord, we wait for you.

We desire your fame and reputation to grow. ⁵ 

Roma 8:25

8:25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance. ⁶ 

[40:1]  ¹ sn Psalm 40. The psalmist combines a song of thanksgiving for a recent act of divine deliverance (vv. 1-11) with a confident petition for renewed divine intervention (vv. 12-17).

[40:1]  ² tn Heb “relying, I relied.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verbal form to emphasize the verbal idea. The emphasis is reflected in the translation through the adverb “completely.” Another option is to translate, “I waited patiently” (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[8:17]  ³ tn Heb “who hides his face from the house of Jacob.”

[26:8]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text has, “yes, the way of your judgments.” The translation assumes that “way” is related to the verb “we wait” as an adverbial accusative (“in the way of your judgments we wait”). מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ (mishpatekha, “your judgments”) could refer to the Lord’s commandments, in which case one might translate, “as we obey your commands.” However, in verse 9 the same form refers to divine acts of judgment on evildoers.

[26:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “your name and your remembrance [is] the desire of [our?] being.”

[8:25]  ⁶ tn Or “perseverance.”