66:13 I will enter 1 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! 2
I will declare what he has done for me.
Book 5
(Psalms 107-150)
107:1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
and his loyal love endures! 4
107:2 Let those delivered by the Lord speak out, 5
those whom he delivered 6 from the power 7 of the enemy,
107:3 and gathered from foreign lands, 8
from east and west,
from north and south.
116:17 I will present a thank offering to you,
and call on the name of the Lord.
116:18 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord
before all his people,
116:19 in the courts of the Lord’s temple,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord!
118:19 Open for me the gates of the just king’s temple! 9
I will enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
1 sn Here the psalmist switches to the singular; he speaks as the representative of the nation.
2 tn Heb “all of the fearers of God.”
3 sn Psalm 107. The psalmist praises God for his kindness to his exiled people.
4 tn Heb “for forever [is] his loyal love.”
5 tn Or “let the redeemed of the
6 tn Or “redeemed.”
7 tn Heb “hand.”
8 tn Heb “from lands.” The word “foreign” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
9 tn Heb “the gates of justice.” The gates of the