Make vows to the Lord your God, and pay them; Let all who are around Him bring presents to Him who ought to be feared.
Parallel translations
- WEB Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
- KJV Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
- BSB Make and fulfill your vows to the LORD your God; let all the neighboring lands bring tribute to Him who is to be feared.
- NASB ¶Make vows to the Lord your God and fulfill them; All who are around Him are to bring gifts to Him who is to be feared.
- NLT Make vows to the Lord your God, and keep them. Let everyone bring tribute to the Awesome One.
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Quick answer
The people are called to make vows to the LORD and fulfill them, and all around to bring Him gifts in reverence.
Overview
In response to God's mighty deeds, the worshipers are summoned to grateful commitment and offering. Vows must not only be made but faithfully kept before the God who is to be feared. This call to wholehearted devotion flows from a right reverence of God and anticipates the worship He receives from every nation in Christ.
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Cross-references · 9
- Eccl 5:4–6When 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 50:14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
- Ps 68:29Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you.
- Num 30:2When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
- Gen 31:42Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
- Ps 89:7a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
- Deut 16:16Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
- 2 Chr 32:22–23Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side.
- Ps 119:106I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
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