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Psalms 61:8

Then I will praise your name forever. Every day I will do what I promised.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Praise;   Vows;   Thompson Chain Reference - Daily Duty;   Duty;   The Topic Concordance - Praise;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Towers;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Vow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Neginah;   Psalms, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
So I will sing praise to Your name forever,As I pay my vows day by day.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So I will sing praise to Your name forever, That I may pay my vows day by day.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So wyll I sing psalmes vnto thy name: that I may day by day perfourme my vowes.
Darby Translation
So will I sing forth thy name for ever, performing my vows from day to day.
New King James Version
So I will sing praise to Your name forever, That I may daily perform my vows.
Literal Translation
So I will sing praise to Your name forever, so that I may pay my vows day by day.
World English Bible
So I will sing praise to your name forever, That I may fulfill my vows daily.
King James Version (1611)
So will I sing praise vnto thy name for euer, that I may daily performe my vowes.
King James Version
So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So wil I allwaye synge prayses vnto thy name, yt I maye daylie perfourme my vowes.
Amplified Bible
So I will sing praise to Your name forever, Paying my vows day by day.
American Standard Version
So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, That I may daily perform my vows.
Bible in Basic English
So will I make songs in praise of your name for ever, giving to God that which is right day by day.
Update Bible Version
So I will sing praise to your name forever, That I may daily perform my vows.
Webster's Bible Translation
So will I sing praise to thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
New English Translation
Then I will sing praises to your name continually, as I fulfill my vows day after day.
Contemporary English Version
I will sing your praises forever and will always keep my promises.
Complete Jewish Bible
May he be enthroned in God's presence forever! Appoint grace and truth to preserve him! Then I will sing praise to your name forever, as day after day I fulfill my vows.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So will I alway sing prayse vnto thy Name in performing dayly my vowes.
George Lamsa Translation
So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, when daily I fulfil my vows.
Hebrew Names Version
So I will sing praise to your name forever, That I may fulfill my vows daily.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
May he be enthroned before God for ever! Appoint mercy and truth, that they may preserve him. So will I sing praise unto Thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
New Living Translation
Then I will sing praises to your name forever as I fulfill my vows each day.
New Life Bible
So I will sing thanks to Your name forever and keep my promises day by day.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So will I sing to thy name for ever and ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
English Revised Version
So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
Berean Standard Bible
Then I will ever sing praise to Your name, fulfilling my vows day by day.
New Revised Standard
So I will always sing praises to your name, as I pay my vows day after day.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So, will I sing thy Name unto futurity, Paying my vows, day by day.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(60-9) So will I sing a psalm to thy name for ever and ever: that I may pay my vows from day to day.
Lexham English Bible
So I will sing the praise of your name forever, that I may fulfill my vows daily.
English Standard Version
So will I ever sing praises to your name, as I perform my vows day after day.
New American Standard Bible
So I will sing praise to Your name forever, That I may pay my vows day by day.
New Century Version
Then I will praise your name forever, and every day I will keep my promises.
Good News Translation
So I will always sing praises to you, as I offer you daily what I have promised.
Christian Standard Bible®
Then I will continually sing of Your name, fulfilling my vows day by day.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
So Y schal seie salm to thi name in to the world of world; that Y yelde my vowis fro dai in to dai.
Young's Literal Translation
So do I praise Thy name for ever, When I pay my vows day by day!
Revised Standard Version
So will I ever sing praises to thy name, as I pay my vows day after day.

Contextual Overview

5 God, you heard what I promised to give you, but everything your worshipers have comes from you. 6 Give the king a long life. Let him live forever! 7 Let him rule in your presence forever. Protect him with your faithful love. 8 Then I will praise your name forever. Every day I will do what I promised.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sing: Psalms 30:12, Psalms 79:13, Psalms 145:1, Psalms 145:2, Psalms 146:2

that I: Psalms 65:1, Psalms 66:13-16

Reciprocal: Genesis 28:20 - vowed Leviticus 22:18 - vows

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever,.... Or constantly; and not only in this world, but in that to come, for the favours before mentioned; for hearing his prayers; giving him a goodly heritage; prolonging the King's life; and preparing mercy and truth to preserve him;

that I may daily perform vows; which is done by praising the Lord, giving him the glory of all mercies, as vowed and promised; see

Psalms 50:14. The Targum adds,

"in the day of the redemption of Israel, and in the day that the King Messiah shall be anointed, that he may reign.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever - As the result of this gracious interposition. Compare the notes at Isaiah 38:20. The meaning is, that he would do this constantly. It would be the regular business of his life.

That I may daily perform my vows - The solemn promises which I have made in my exile; the purposes which I have expressed to devote myself to thee. Or, the language may have been used in a more general sense, denoting that, as a religious man, the vows of God were constantly on him, or that he had pledged himself to serve God faithfully and always, and that he could better perform this duty at the tabernacle - in the place consecrated to public worship - than he could in exile. He desired, therefore, to be restored to the sanctuary, that he might keep up the performance of the daily duties of religion without interruption or hindrance. The whole psalm indicates a fervent desire to be engaged in the worship and service of God; a desire to be with Him and to enjoy His favor on earth; a confident hope that he would be permitted to enjoy His presence forever.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 61:8. So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever — For the benefits which I have received, and hope to receive endlessly from thee, I will to all perpetuity praise thee.

That I may daily perform my vows. — While I live, I shall יום יום yom, yom, "day by day," each day as it succeeds, render to thee my vows - act according to what I have often purposed, and as often promised. The Chaldee ends remarkably: "Thus I will praise thy name for ever, when I shall perform my vows in the day of the redemption of Israel; and in the day in which the King Messiah shall be anointed, that he may reign."

The ancient Jews were full of the expectation of the Messiah; the Jews of the present day have given up their hope.

ANALYSIS OF THE SIXTY-FIRST PSALM

The author of this Psalm prays and vows perpetual service to God. It is composed of two parts: -

I. His prayer, Psalms 61:1-3.

II. His vow, Psalms 61:4-8.

He begins with a prayer, in which he begs, -

1. Audience: "Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer," Psalms 61:1.

2. The reason to enforce it.

1. He was in banishment, in the farther part of the land of Judah: "From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee."

2. He was in extremity: "When my heart is overwhelmed."

3. For defence: "Lead me to the rock that is higher than I;" that is, To some safe and defenced place to which my enemies may have no access, whither without thy help I cannot ascend.

And he adds a reason to this part of his prayer drawn from his own experience: "For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy."

His faith now presents him as delivered; and, therefore, he vows, -

1. "I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever." I will return, and adore thee in thy temple.

2. "I will trust in the covert of thy wings." He alludes to the cherubim, whose wings cover the ark.

And for this he assigns many reasons also: -

1. "For thou, O God, hast heard my vows," i.e., my prayers.

2. "Thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name; " made me king over thy people, and more fully performed to me the promise made to Abraham, in the land of Canaan.

3. "Thou wilt prolong the king's life."

4. "And his years," i.e., in his posterity, "as many generations;" of which the beginning of the next verse is the prediction. "He shall abide before God for ever."

And now David, assuring himself of the crown, and that his posterity should inherit it, puts forth an earnest vote for that which should establish it: "O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him; i.e., me thy king;" for these two virtues, mercy, i.e., clemency, and truth, do commend a king, and make him dear to his subjects; for in the practice of these it is not possible that his government should be harsh, unjust, or tyrannical.

Which if it please God to bestow upon him, then he makes a new vow: "So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever."

Though here this appears to be a new vow, yet he had vowed it before, and engaged to discharge; for in singing praise to God's name, he should but pay what by vow he had often undertaken: "I will sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows."


 
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