Psalms 56:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I am obligated to fulfill the vows I made to you, O God; I will give you the thank-offerings you deserve,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֵּֽאלֹהִ֣ים בָּ֭טַחְתִּי לֹ֣א אִירָ֑א מַה־יַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה אָדָ֣ם לִֽי׃

Transliteration

In-ʾĕlōhîm bāṭaḥtî lōʾ ʾîrāʾ what-yaʿăśeh ʾādām to-me

Grammar Details

• *ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun with bet prefix - in God
• *bāṭaḥtî*: Qal perfect 1st singular - I have trusted
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ʾîrāʾ*: Qal imperfect 1st singular - I fear
• *yaʿăśeh*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he does/will do
• *ʾādām*: masculine singular noun - man/mankind/human

Word Meanings

• *bāṭaḥtî*: I have trusted/I trust/I have confidence
• *ʾîrāʾ*: I fear/I am afraid/I will fear
• *yaʿăśeh*: he does/he will do/he can do
• *ʾādām*: man/mankind/humanity/human being

Referenced Verses

• Ps 50:14 : 14 Present to God a thank-offering! Repay your vows to the Most High!
• Ps 9:1-3 : 1 For the music director; according to the alumoth-labben style; a psalm of David. I will thank the LORD with all my heart! I will tell about all your amazing deeds! 2 I will be happy and rejoice in you! I will sing praises to you, O Most High! 3 When my enemies turn back, they trip and are defeated before you.
• Ps 21:13 : 13 Rise up, O LORD, in strength! We will sing and praise your power!
• Gen 28:20-22 : 20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying,“If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear, 21 and I return safely to my father’s home, then the LORD will become my God. 22 Then this stone that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely give you back a tenth of everything you give me.”
• Gen 35:1-3 : 1 The Return to Bethel Then God said to Jacob,“Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” 2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him,“Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3 Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”
• Num 30:2-9 : 2 If a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath of binding obligation on himself, he must not break his word, but must do whatever he has promised. 3 Vows Made by Single Women“If a young woman who is still living in her father’s house makes a vow to the LORD or places herself under an obligation, 4 and her father hears of her vow or the obligation to which she has pledged herself, and her father remains silent about her, then all her vows will stand, and every obligation to which she has pledged herself will stand. 5 But if her father overrules her when he hears about it, then none of her vows or her obligations which she has pledged for herself will stand. And the LORD will release her from it, because her father overruled her. 6 Vows Made by Married Women“And if she marries a husband while under a vow, or she uttered anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself, 7 and her husband hears about it, but remains silent about her when he hears about it, then her vows will stand and her obligations which she has pledged for herself will stand. 8 But if when her husband hears it he overrules her, then he will nullify the vow she has taken, and whatever she uttered impulsively which she has pledged for herself. And the LORD will release her from it. 9 Vows Made by Widows“But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman which she has pledged for herself will remain intact. 10 If she made the vow in her husband’s house or put herself under obligation with an oath, 11 and her husband heard about it, but remained silent about her, and did not overrule her, then all her vows will stand, and every obligation which she pledged for herself will stand. 12 But if her husband clearly nullifies them when he hears them, then whatever she says by way of vows or obligations will not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the LORD will release her from them. 13 “Any vow or sworn obligation that would bring affliction to her, her husband can confirm or nullify. 14 But if her husband remains completely silent about her from day to day, he thus confirms all her vows or all her obligations which she is under; he confirms them because he remained silent about her when he heard them. 15 But if he should nullify them after he has heard them, then he will bear her iniquity.” 16 These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses, relating to a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father’s house.
• 1 Sam 1:11 : 11 She made a vow saying,“O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, if you would truly look on the suffering of your servant, and would keep me in mind and not neglect your servant, and give your servant a male child, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.”
• 1 Sam 1:24-28 : 24 Then she took him up with her as soon as she had weaned him, along with three bulls, an ephah of flour, and a container of wine. She came to the LORD’s house at Shiloh, and the boy was with them. 25 They slaughtered the bull, then brought the boy to Eli. 26 She said,“My lord. Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the LORD. 27 For this boy I prayed, and the LORD has given me the request that I asked of him. 28 So I also dedicate him to the LORD. For all the days of his life he is dedicated to the LORD.”Then he bowed down there in worship to the LORD.
• Ps 59:16-17 : 16 As for me, I will sing about your strength; I will praise your loyal love in the morning. For you are my refuge and my place of shelter when I face trouble. 17 You are my source of strength! I will sing praises to you! For God is my refuge, the God who loves me.
• Ps 66:13-14 : 13 I will enter your temple with burnt sacrifices; I will fulfill the vows I made to you, 14 which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble.
• Ps 76:11 : 11 Make vows to the LORD your God and repay them! Let all those who surround him bring tribute to the awesome one!
• Ps 116:14-19 : 14 I will fulfill my vows to the LORD before all his people. 15 The LORD values the lives of his faithful followers. 16 Yes, LORD! I am indeed your servant; I am your servant, the son of your female servant. You saved me from death. 17 I will present a thank offering to you, and call on the name of the LORD. 18 I will fulfill my vows to the LORD before all his people, 19 in the courts of the LORD’s temple, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!
• Ps 119:106 : 106 I have vowed and solemnly sworn to keep your just regulations.
• Eccl 5:4-6 : 4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay in paying it. For God takes no pleasure in fools: Pay what you vow! 5 It is better for you not to vow than to vow and not pay it. 6 Do not let your mouth cause you to sin, and do not tell the priest,“It was a mistake!” Why make God angry at you so that he would destroy the work of your hands?”
• Isa 12:1 : 1 At that time you will say:“I praise you, O LORD, for even though you were angry with me, your anger subsided, and you consoled me.