My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
My praise shall be of thee - literally, 'My praise shall be from thee,' as the starting-point of praise and its theme. In the great assembly, antitypical to that of all the tribes assembled for worship in Jerusalem at the great feasts (Deuteronomy 16:16). "The congregation" (Psalms 22:22) is that of the Jewish and Gentile elect. Here "the great congregation" seems to be that of all Israel when the whole nation shall turn to the Lord (Romans 11:26-32; 2 Corinthians 3:16). Here He realizes sensibly what He had spoken in faith, Psalms 22:3; His groanings no longer blending with the "praises."
I will pay my vows. At the feast of weeks, and that of tabernacles, both connected with the harvest (Deuteronomy 16:10-15), those who offered a "sacrifice of thanksgiving," invited their neighbours to a feast, and at it recounted the mercies of God to them. So also those who in distress had vowed certain sacrifices, on obtaining deliverance, invited to the covenant feast the widow, the orphan, and the poor (Deuteronomy 16:11; Deuteronomy 12:18), and there invited them to praise God with them.