Psalms 116:18

I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
pay	אֲשַׁלֵּ֑ם 'a.sha.Lem	H7999	to be safe (in mind · verb, piel imperfect, 1st person common singular
vows	נְ֭דָרַי Ne.da.rai	H5088	a promise (to God) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
LORD	לַיהוָ֣ה la.Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · preposition + proper noun, a title
people	עַמּֽוֹ a.Mo	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

Psalms 116:14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
Psalms 22:25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
Psalms 76:11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
Ecclesiastes 5:5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 116:10–end

The Septuagint and some other ancient versions make these verses a distinct psalm separate from the former; and some have called it the Martyr's psalm, I suppose for the sake of Psa 116:15. Three things David here makes confession of: - I. His faith (Psa 116:10): I believed, therefore have I spoken. This is quoted by the apostle (Co2 4:13) with application to himself and his fellow-ministers, who, though they suffered for Christ, were not ashamed to own him. David believed the being, providence, and promise of God, particularly the assurance God had given him by Samuel that he should exchange his crook for a sceptre: a great deal of hardship he went through in the belief of this, and theref…

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John Gill on Psalms 116:18

I will pay my vows unto the Lord,.... See Gill on Psalm 116:14. And the Targum here, as there, paraphrases the latter clause, now in the presence of all his people, thus; "I will then declare his signs (or wonders) to all his people;'' the marvellous things he had done for him.

John Calvin on Psalms 116:15–end

Psalm 116:15-19 15. Precious in the eyes of Jehovah is the death of his meek ones. 16. Come, O Jehovah! because I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the son of thine handmaid: thou hast broken my fetters. 17. I will sacrifice the sacrifices of praise to thee, and call upon the name of Jehovah. [383] 18. I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people, 19. In the courts of the house of Jehovah, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem! Praise ye Jehovah. 15. Precious in the eyes of Jehovah is the death of his meek ones. He goes on now to the general doctrine of God's providential care for the godly, in that he renders them assistance in time of need; their lives being precious in his sight…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 116:15–end

From what he has experienced the poet infers that the saints of Jahve are under His most especial providence. Instead of המּות the poet, who is fond of such embellishments, chooses the pathetic form המּותה, and consequently, instead of the genitival construct state (מות), the construction with the Lamed of "belonging to." It ought properly to be "soul" or "blood," as in the primary passage Psa 72:14. But the observation of Grotius: quae pretiosa sunt, non facile largimur, applies also to the expression "death." The death of His saints is no trifling matter with God; He does not lightly suffer it to come about; He does not suffer His own to be torn away from Him by death. (Note: The Apostolic…

The Church Fathers

I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people. What are the prayers of the martyrs? What are the prayers of the saints? "I will hold you," he says, "and I will not let you go." I will adore, he says, the Lord, whom, reading in the Gospel, I found crucified, and in the heavens I see reigning with the angels. In the sight of all his people. Read Daniel.
— Jerome, Homily 40, on Psalm 115

"I will pay my vows unto the Lord" [Psalm 116:18]. What vows will you pay? What victims have you vowed? What burnt-offerings, what holocausts? Do you refer to what you have said a little before, "I will receive the cup of salvation, and will call upon the Name of the Lord;" and, "I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving"? And indeed whosoever well considers what he is vowing to the Lord, and what vows he is paying, let him vow himself, let him pay himself as a vow: this is exacted, this is due. On looking at the coin, the Lord says, "Render unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's, and unto God the things which are God's:" [Matthew 22:21] his own image is rendered unto Cæsar: let His image be rendered unto God.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 116

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Dictionary and topics

Temple, the Second — After the return from captivity, under Zerubbabel (q.v.) and the high priest Jeshua, arrangements were almost immediately made to reorganize the long-desolated kingdom. The body of pilgrims, forming…
Missionaries, All Christians Should Be As · In declaring what God has done for them — In declaring what God has done for them

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Psalms 116:18

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 116:10–end

John Gill on Psalms 116:18

John Calvin on Psalms 116:15–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 116:15–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 116:18

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 116:10–end

John Gill on Psalms 116:18

John Calvin on Psalms 116:15–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 116:15–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 116:15-19

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 116:18