I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You—
Parallel translations
- WEB I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
- KJV I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
- NKJV I will go into Your house with burnt offerings; I will pay You my vows,
- NASB I shall come into Your house with burnt offerings; I shall pay You my vows,
- NLT Now I come to your Temple with burnt offerings to fulfill the vows I made to you—
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Quick answer
The psalmist resolves to come to God's house with offerings and to pay his vows. It models grateful worship that follows deliverance.
Overview
Having been delivered, the worshiper determines to enter God's temple with burnt offerings and fulfill the vows he made. Genuine gratitude expresses itself in worship and faithfulness. Under the new covenant such thanksgiving is offered through Christ, our great sacrifice and high priest.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 100:4Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.
- Eccl 5:4When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.
- Ps 56:12Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.
- Ps 116:17–19I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.
- Heb 13:15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
- Ps 116:14I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people.
- Ps 118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter and give thanks to the LORD.
- Nah 1:15Look to the mountains—the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.
- Jonah 2:9But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”
- Deut 12:11–12then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
- Ps 22:25My praise for You resounds in the great assembly; I will fulfill my vows before those who fear You.
- Ps 118:27The LORD is God; He has made His light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.
- Ps 51:18–19In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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