I shall come into Your house with burnt offerings; I shall pay You my vows,
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,
- 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,
- NLT Now I come to your Temple with burnt offerings to fulfill the vows I made to you—
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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, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
- Eccl 5:4When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
- Ps 56:12Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.
- Ps 116:17–19I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.
- Heb 13:15Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
- Ps 116:14I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people.
- Ps 118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.
- Nah 1:15Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
- Jonah 2:9But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”
- Deut 12:11–12then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
- Ps 22:25Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.
- Ps 118:27Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
- Ps 51:18–19Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
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