You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.
Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy.
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!
When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.
I will come into your house with burnt offerings; I will perform my vows to you, that which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—
then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.
But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people.
I must perform my vows to you, O God; I will render thank offerings to you.
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