Text -- Psalms 66:13-20 (NET)

66:13 I will enter your temple with burnt sacrifices; I will fulfill the vows I made to you, 66:14 which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble. 66:15 I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices, along with the smell of sacrificial rams. I will offer cattle and goats. (Selah) 66:16 Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! I will declare what he has done for me. 66:17 I cried out to him for help and praised him with my tongue. 66:18 If I had harbored sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. 66:19 However, God heard; he listened to my prayer. 66:20 God deserves praise, for he did not reject my prayer or abandon his love for me!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 66:13

¹ sn Here the psalmist switches to the singular; he speaks as the representative of the nation.

NET Notes: Psa 66:16

¹ tn Heb “all of the fearers of God.”

NET Notes: Psa 66:17

¹ tn Heb “to him [with] my mouth I called.”

² tn Heb “and he was extolled under my tongue.” The form רוֹמַם (romam) appears to be a polal (passive) participle from רוּם (rum, “be exalted”), but many prefer to read רוֹמָם, “high praise [was under my tongue]” (cf. NEB). See BDB 928 s.v. רוֹמָם.

NET Notes: Psa 66:18

¹ tn Heb “sin if I had seen in my heart.”

NET Notes: Psa 66:20

¹ tn Heb “blessed [be] God.”

² tn Or “who.” In a blessing formula after בָּרוּךְ (barukh, “blessed be”) the form אֲשֶׁר (’asher), whether taken as a relative pronoun or causal particle, introduces the basis for the blessing/praise.

³ tn Heb “did not turn aside my prayer and his loyal love with me.”