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Psalm 66:14
which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
12You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.
13I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
14which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
15I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.
16Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.
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The lips and mouth make the promise concrete: words spoken to God in distress still matter to the speaker when relief has come.
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Judges 11:35–36When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my …Both speakers recall words spoken to the LORD as binding, though Jephthah’s recollection comes with anguish.
1 Samuel 1:11She vowed a vow, and said, “LORD of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will …Hannah’s vow and the psalm’s remembered promise both arise from affliction and are addressed to God.
Psalm 18:6In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.Both passages recall speaking to God in distress; Psalm 18 describes a cry, while Psalm 66 recalls a promise.
Psalm 119:57The LORD is my portion. I promised to obey your words.Both speakers remember a promise made to God; Psalm 119 names obedience to his words as its content.
2 Samuel 22:7In my distress, I called on the LORD. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.Distress leads to speech directed toward God in both passages, taking the form of a promise or a cry.
Numbers 30:2When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out …Both texts treat a vow spoken to God as a commitment to be kept.
Numbers 30:8But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has …Both mention vows spoken by the lips; Numbers describes a circumstance in which a vow is made void.
Psalm 69:17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!Both speakers address God from the experience of distress, though Psalm 69 asks for an answer without mentioning a vow.
Psalm 31:9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.Distress shapes speech to God in both texts; Psalm 31 pleads for mercy amid grief.
Genesis 28:20–22Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,Both passages record a spoken vow concerning God, with Jacob’s words naming protection and basic provision.
Genesis 35:3Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”Both connect worship with remembered distress: the psalm names promised offerings, and Jacob plans an altar to God who answered him.
Numbers 30:12But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond …Both describe vows proceeding from the lips; Numbers addresses circumstances in which those spoken commitments do not stand.
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Relief has come, yet the speaker remembers what distress brought to his lips. His worship includes keeping the promise he made to God when life was hard.
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