Psalms 116:18

116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.

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

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I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people,

I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people,

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

116:19 In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.

What does Psalms 116:18 mean?

Psalms 116:18 is a verse in the book of Psalms, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include שָׁלַם (shâlam), נֶדֶר (neder), יְהֹוָה (Yᵉhôvâh).

Hebrew interlinear

will

payשָׁלַםshâlam/shaw-lam'/H7999to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications)

vowsנֶדֶרneder/neh'-der/H5088a promise (to God); also (concretely) a thing promised

unto

the

LORDיְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâh/yeh-ho-vaw'/H3068Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

now

the

presence

all

his

people,עַםʻam/am/H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

Topics

Missionaries, All Christians Should Be As Praise Vows

Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Psalms 116:18.

2 Samuel 15:7

And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.

Deuteronomy 12:11

Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD: your choice: Heb. the choice of your vows

Deuteronomy 12:26

Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:

Deuteronomy 23:21

When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

Job 22:27

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

Psalms 22:25

My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

Psalms 50:14

Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

Psalms 56:12

Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.