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9:11 Tell among the peoples his deeds. See 105:1 and Isa. 12:4 (cf. 1 Chron. 16:8) for a similar expression; and Ps. 18:49 and 96:3 for the idea. God called Abram and Israel for the sake of the whole world, and one function of passages like these is to cultivate in Israel a yearning for the time when the Gentiles would receive the blessing; Paul cites a number of texts to this effect in Rom. 15:8-12 in order that the Roman Christians might see that such a time has now come.

9:12 Mindful of them, namely, of the oppressed people of Israel (v. 9), whose blood God avenges when the Gentiles would spill it unjustly.