12 I must perform my (A)vows to you, O God;
    I will (B)render thank offerings to you.

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14 (A)Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,[a]
    and (B)perform your vows to the Most High,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 50:14 Or Make thanksgiving your sacrifice to God

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

[a] To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben.[b] A Psalm of David.

I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
    I will recount all of your (A)wonderful deeds.
I will be glad and (B)exult in you;
    I will (C)sing praise to your name, (D)O Most High.

When my enemies turn back,
    they stumble and perish before[c] your presence.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 9:1 Psalms 9 and 10 together follow an acrostic pattern, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they form one psalm
  2. Psalm 9:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
  3. Psalm 9:3 Or because of

When (A)you vow a vow to God, (B)do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. (C)Pay what you vow. (D)It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. Let not your mouth lead you[a] into sin, and do not say before (E)the messenger[b] that it was (F)a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:6 Hebrew your flesh
  2. Ecclesiastes 5:6 Or angel

106 I have (A)sworn an oath and confirmed it,
    to keep your (B)righteous rules.

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14 I will (A)pay my vows to the Lord
    in the presence of all his people.

15 (B)Precious in the sight of the Lord
    is the death of his (C)saints.
16 O Lord, I am your (D)servant;
    I am your servant, (E)the son of your maidservant.
    You have (F)loosed my bonds.
17 I will (G)offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving
    and (H)call on the name of the Lord.
18 I will (I)pay my vows to the Lord
    in the presence of all his people,
19 in (J)the courts of the house of the Lord,
    in your midst, O Jerusalem.
(K)Praise the Lord!

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11 (A)Make your vows to the Lord your God and perform them;
    let all around him (B)bring gifts
    to him who (C)is to be feared,

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13 I will come into your house with burnt offerings;
    I will (A)perform my vows to you,
14 that which my lips uttered
    and my mouth promised (B)when I was in trouble.

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16 But I will sing of your strength;
    I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning.
For you have been to me (A)a fortress
    and (B)a refuge in (C)the day of my distress.
17 O my Strength, I will sing praises to you,
    for you, O God, (D)are my fortress,
    (E)the God who shows me steadfast love.

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13 Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength!
    We will sing and praise your power.

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24 And when she had weaned him, (A)she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull,[a] an ephah[b] of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to (B)the house of the Lord at Shiloh. And the child was young. 25 Then they slaughtered the bull, and they brought the child to Eli. 26 And she said, “Oh, my lord! (C)As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord. 27 For this child I prayed, (D)and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him. 28 Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.”

(E)And he worshiped the Lord there.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:24 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac; Masoretic Text three bulls
  2. 1 Samuel 1:24 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters

11 And she (A)vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed (B)look on the affliction of your servant and (C)remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, (D)and no razor shall touch his head.”

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(A)If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or (B)swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. (C)He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Women and Vows

“If a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father's house in her youth, and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord will forgive her, because her father opposed her.

“If she marries a husband, while under her (D)vows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself, and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void her (E)vow that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself. (F)And the Lord will forgive her. (But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.) 10 And if she vowed in her husband's house or bound herself by a pledge with an oath, 11 and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not oppose her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand. 12 But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and (G)the Lord will forgive her. 13 Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself,[a] her husband may establish,[b] or her husband may make void. 14 But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges that are upon her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her on the day that he heard of them. 15 But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then (H)he shall bear her iniquity.”

16 These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses about a man and his wife and about a father and his daughter while she is in her youth within her father's house.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 30:13 Or to fast
  2. Numbers 30:13 Or may allow to stand

God Blesses and Renames Jacob

35 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to (A)Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you (B)when you fled from your brother Esau.” So Jacob said to his (C)household and to all who were with him, “Put away (D)the foreign gods that are among you and (E)purify yourselves and change your garments. Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God (F)who answers me in the day of my distress and (G)has been with me wherever I have gone.”

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20 Then Jacob (A)made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, 21 (B)so that I come again to my father's house in peace, (C)then the Lord shall be my God, 22 and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, (D)shall be God's house. And (E)of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”

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The Lord Is My Strength and My Song

12 You[a] will say (A)in that day:
“I will give thanks to you, O Lord,
    for though you were angry with me,
(B)your anger turned away,
    that you might comfort me.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 12:1 The Hebrew for you is singular in verse 1

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