Psalms 66:13-14

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.

Psalms 116:14

116:14 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord

before all his people.

Psalms 116:16-18

116:16 Yes, Lord! I am indeed your servant;

I am your lowest slave. ² 

You saved me from death. ³ 

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,

Jonah 2:9

2:9 But as for me, I promise to offer a sacrifice to you with a public declaration ⁴  of praise; ⁵ 

I will surely do ⁶  what I have promised. ⁷ 

Salvation ⁸  belongs to the Lord!” ⁹ 

[66:13]  ¹ sn Here the psalmist switches to the singular; he speaks as the representative of the nation.

[116:16]  ² tn Heb “I am your servant, the son of your female servant.” The phrase “son of a female servant” (see also Ps 86:16) is used of a son born to a secondary wife or concubine (Exod 23:12). In some cases the child’s father is the master of the house (see Gen 21:10, 13; Judg 9:18). The use of the expression here certainly does not imply that the Lord has such a secondary wife or concubine! It is used metaphorically and idiomatically to emphasize the psalmist’s humility before the Lord and his status as the Lord’s servant.

[116:16]  ³ tn Heb “you have loosed my bonds.” In this context the imagery refers to deliverance from death (see v. 3).

[2:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “voice” or “sound.”

[2:9]  ⁵ tc The MT reads בְּקוֹל תּוֹדָה (bÿqol todah, “with a voice of thanksgiving”). Some mss of Tg. Jonah read “with the sound of hymns of thanksgiving” here in 2:9 – the longer reading probably reflects an editorial gloss, explaining תּוֹדָה (“thanksgiving”) as “hymns of thanksgiving.”

[2:9]  ⁶ tn The verbs translated “I will sacrifice” and “I will pay” are Hebrew cohortatives, expressing Jonah’s resolve and firm intention.

[2:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “what I have vowed I will pay.” Jonah promises to offer a sacrifice and publicly announce why he is thankful. For similar pledges, see Pss 22:25-26; 50:14-15; 56:12; 69:29-33; 71:14-16, 22-24; 86:12-13; 116:12-19.

[2:9]  ⁸ tn Or “deliverance” (NAB, NRSV).

[2:9]  ⁹ tn Or “comes from the Lord.” For similar uses of the preposition lamed (לְ, lÿ) to convey a sort of ownership in which the owner does or may by right do something, see Lev 25:48; Deut 1:17; 1 Sam 17:47; Jer 32:7-8.