LXX Psalms

Septuagint

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Psalm 97

1 A Psalm of David. Sing to the Lord a new song; for the Lord has performed wonderful works, his right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.⁠ 2 The Lord has made known his salvation, he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. 3 He has remembered his mercy to Jacob, and his truth to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 4 Shout to God, all the earth; sing, and exult, and sing psalms. 5 Sing to the Lord with a harp, with a harp, and the voice of a psalm. 6 With trumpets of metal, and the sound of a trumpet of horn make a joyful noise before the Lord the King. 7 Let the sea be moved, and the fullness of it; the world, and they that dwell in it. 8 The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult. 9 For he has come to judge the earth; he shall judge the world in righteousness, and the nations in uprightness.

Texts in conversation

Compare LXX Psalm 97:2 and Romans 1:16

Septuagint · New Testament

Summary

Romans opens with the language of Psalm 98, where divine power and justice are revealed before all the nations. Paul uses this to depict Jesus as the way God reveals his righteousness, a public act of deliverance that unites and expands Israel’s story.

Passages

LXX Psalm 97:2

Septuagint

1 A Psalm of David. Sing to the Lord a new song; for the Lord has performed wonderful works, his right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him. 2 The Lord has made known his salvation, he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. 3 He has remembered his mercy to Jacob, and his truth to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

100–1 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in LXX Psalms

Romans 1:16

New Testament

13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles. 14 I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. 15 Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”

55–58 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in Romans

References

"... The keynote of Paul's exposition sounds in Romans 1:16-17: "I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation [soterian] to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For through the gospel the righteousness of God [dikaiosyne theou] is revealed [apokalyptetai], from faith for faith, just as it is written, 'The righteous one shall live from faith.'" All the crucial theological terms of this programmatic declaration echo the language of the LXX; indeed, in certain LXX passages these terms converge in ways that prefigure Paul's formulation strikingly. Consider, for example, Psalm 97:2 (98:2 Masoretic): "The Lord has made known his salvation [soterion]; in the presence of the nations [ethnon] he has revealed [apekalypsen] his righteousness [dikaiosynen]." This psalm verse tolls a Vorklang of Paul's proclamation - a tone whose echo rebounds with greater force than the original sound. Paul means, of course, that God's righteousness is revealed through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but his evocation of the psalmist's language hints at a conviction that he articulates explicitly elsewhere: God's grace in Jesus Christ simultaneously extends salvation to the Gentiles and confirms Israel's trust in God's saving righteousness (see Romans 15:8-9a) ..."

Richard B. Hays, Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989), 36–37.

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Compare LXX Psalm 97:2 and Romans 1:16

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LXX Psalm 97:2

Romans 1:16

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