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Psalm 73:15

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73:15If I had publicized these thoughts,25

I would have betrayed your loyal followers.26

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Footnotes

  1. 25 Heb “If I had said, ‘I will speak out like this.’ ”
  2. 26 Heb “look, the generation of your sons I would have betrayed.” The phrase “generation of your [i.e., God’s] sons” occurs only here in the OT. Some equate the phrase with “generation of the godly” (Ps 14:5), “generation of the ones seeking him” (Ps 24:6), and “generation of the upright” (Ps 112:2). In Deut 14:1 the Israelites are referred to as God’s “sons.” Perhaps the psalmist refers here to those who are “Israelites” in the true sense because of their loyalty to God (note the juxtaposition of “Israel” with “the pure in heart” in v. 1).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

If I had said, “I will speak thus,”

I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If I had spoken out like that,

I would have betrayed your children.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If I had decided to say these things aloud,

I would have betrayed your people.

NLTNew Living Translation

If I had really spoken this way to others,

I would have been a traitor to your people.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If I had said, “I will speak thus,”

behold, I would have acted treacherously

against your children’s generation.

KJV 1900King James Version

If I say, I will speak thus;

Behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.