Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
-God's people should pay their vows to Him; the surrounding pagan should bring their gifts to Him who is so terrible to the rebellious.
Verse 11. Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God - i:e., pay that which ye have vowed (Deuteronomy 23:21-22). The expression, "your God," shows that this is addressed to the people of God.
Let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared - the Gentile nations dwelling round about Israel (Kimchi). The Hebrew accent forbids our joining, as Hengstenberg does, "all that be round about" to "vow." So Psalms 68:29; 2 Chronicles 32:22-23, expressly says that 'the Lord guided Hezekiah and Jerusalem on every side, and many brought gifts unto the Lord to Jerusalem; so that he (Hezekiah) was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.' Hengstenberg, from Numbers 2:2. takes, "all that be round about Him" to be the Israelites, in the midst of whom the Lord is often said to dwell, which is not said of the pagan. But when the Gentiles submit themselves and turn to the Lord, they, too, shall be "round about him," Jerusalem being the religious center of the earth. Psalms 68:29-30 confirms this; cf. Revelation 4:4; Revelation 7:17, of the redeemed round about the Lamb.
Verse 12. He shall cut off (yibetzor) - literally, as a vine-dresser; with which strikingly accords Revelation 14:18-19.
The spirit of princes - i:e., their breath (Psalms 104:29).