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In prospect of his deliverance the poet promises beforehand to fulfil the duty of thankfulness. עָלַי, incumbent upon me, as in Pro 7:14; 2Sa 18:11. נְדָרֶיךָ, with an objective subject, are the vows made to God; and תֹּודֹות are distinguished from them, as e.g., in 2Ch 29:31. He will suffer neither the pledged שַׁלְמֵי נֶדֶר nor the שַׁלְמֵי תֹּודָה to be wanting; for - so will he be then able to sing and to declare - Thou hast rescued, etc. The perfect after כִּי denotes that which is then past, as in Psa 59:17, cf. the dependent passage Psa 116:8. There the expression is אַרְצֹות הַחַיִּים instead of אֹור הַחַיִּים (here and in Elihu's speech, Job 33:30). Light of life (Joh 8:12) or of the living (lxx τῶν ζώντων) is not exclusively the sun-light of this present life. Life is the opposite of death in the deepest and most comprehensive sense; light of life is therefore the opposite of the night of Hades, of this seclusion from God and from His revelation in human history.