I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
Parallel translations
- WEB I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
- BSB I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You—
- 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 into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
- Eccl 5:4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
- Ps 56:12Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
- Ps 116:17–19I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.
- Heb 13:15By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
- Ps 116:14I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
- Ps 118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
- Nah 1:15Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
- Jonah 2:9But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
- Deut 12:11–12Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
- Ps 22:25My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
- Ps 118:27God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
- Ps 51:18–19Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
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