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12 How can I repay the Lord
    for all the great good done for me?
13 I will raise the cup of salvation[a]
    and call on the name of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 116:13 The cup of salvation: probably the libation of wine poured out in gratitude for rescue, cf. Ex 25:29; Nm 15:5, 7, 10.

14 I will pay my vows to the Lord
    in the presence of all his people.
15 [a]Dear in the eyes of the Lord
    is the death of his devoted.(A)

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  1. 116:15 Dear in the eyes of the Lord: the meaning is that the death of God’s faithful is grievous to God, not that God is pleased with the death, cf. Ps 72:14. In Wis 3:5–6, God accepts the death of the righteous as a sacrificial burnt offering.

16 Lord, I am your servant,
    your servant, the child of your maidservant;(A)
    you have loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer a sacrifice of praise
    and call on the name of the Lord.(B)

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