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16 Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God.[a]
I will declare what he has done for me.
17 I cried out to him for help[b]
and praised him with my tongue.[c]
18 If I had harbored sin in my heart,[d]
the Lord would not have listened.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 66:16 tn Heb “all of the fearers of God.”
  2. Psalm 66:17 tn Heb “to him [with] my mouth I called.”
  3. Psalm 66:17 tn Heb “and he was extolled under my tongue.” The form רוֹמַם (romam) appears to be a Polal (passive) participle from רוּם (rum, “be exalted”), but many prefer to read רוֹמָם, “high praise [was under my tongue]” (cf. NEB). See BDB 928 s.v. רוֹמָם.
  4. Psalm 66:18 tn Heb “sin if I had seen in my heart.”