Psalms 50:14
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay thy vows to the Most High.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
In Context
13Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
15And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shall glorify me.
Cross References
Numbers 30:2When a man vows a vow to LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
Deuteronomy 23:21When thou shall vow a vow to LORD thy God, thou shall not be slack to pay it. For LORD thy God will surely require it of thee, and it would be sin in thee.
Deuteronomy 23:23That which has gone out of thy lips thou shall observe and do, according as thou have vowed to LORD thy God, a freewill-offering, which thou have promised with thy mouth.
Job 22:27Thou shall make thy prayer to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shall pay thy vows.
Psalms 22:26The meek shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise LORD who seek after him. Let your heart live forever.
Psalms 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me. And to him who orders his way [aright] I will show the salvation of God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:8-16
The Inefficacy of Legal Sacrifices. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not… Read the whole commentary →