Hard Sayings from this morning's Mattins

This bit from the 78th psalm struck me particularly:

 I will declare hard sentences of old which we have heard and known,  and such as our fathers have told us:  That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come,  but to show the honour of the Lord, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done.

The RSV calls them "dark sayings".   I don't know if that's an improvement or not.  It does take the text in a different direction than the older version.   In any event, it's interesting the way a text one has read a hundred times, on the hundred and first reading carries one away on a completely unexpected meditation.