When he saw her, he tore his clothes in sorrow and said, "Oh, my daughter! You are breaking my heart! Why must it be you that causes me pain? I have made a solemn promise to the LORD, and I cannot take it back!"

She told him, "If you have made a promise to the LORD, do what you said you would do to me, since the LORD has given you revenge on your enemies, the Ammonites."

When a man makes a vow to give something to the LORD or takes an oath to abstain from something, he must not break his promise, but must do everything that he said he would.

But if her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The LORD will forgive her.

But if her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The LORD will forgive her, because her husband prevented her from keeping her vow.

Then Jacob made a vow to the LORD: "If you will be with me and protect me on the journey I am making and give me food and clothing,

This memorial stone which I have set up will be the place where you are worshiped, and I will give you a tenth of everything you give me."

We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone."

Hannah made a solemn promise: " LORD Almighty, look at me, your servant! See my trouble and remember me! Don't forget me! If you give me a son, I promise that I will dedicate him to you for his whole life and that he will never have his hair cut."

In my trouble I called to the LORD; I called to my God for help. In his temple he heard my voice; he listened to my cry for help.