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{{ExegeticalNote
|Layer=Grammar
|VerseRange=v. 7
|Diagram=v-7-None
|Hebrew Word=יְהוָ֗ה
|Text=Depending on how one divides the lines in v. 7ab, "'''YHWH'''" may be either the final noun of a construct chain ("...decree of YHWH. He said..." so Targum: קימא דייי; see also the layout in the Aleppo Codex) or the subject of the following clause ("...decree. YHWH said..." so MT accents [ole we-yored]; Aquila[?]: κύριος; Peshitta), or, if "YHWH" is read twice, both the final noun of a construct chain and the subject of the next clause ("...decree of YHWH. YHWH said..." so LXX; Jerome [iuxta Hebr.]). Most of the modern translations consulted group "YHWH" with v. 7a.
<ul><li>"I will proclaim the LORD’s decree: He said to me" (NIV, cf. NRSV, NLT, CSB, CEV, GNT, REB, NET, LUT, HFA, NGÜ, ELB, EÜ, GNB, ZÜR)</li>
<li>"I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me" (ESV, cf. NJPS)</li></ul>
A decision is difficult. In the absence of any compelling evidence one way or another, we have defaulted to following the reading tradition of the Masoretes.
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