Thanks, Q.

Yeah, it feels to me like the right sense of "pay" is hard to capture in the translation.... there are some pretty big theological concepts being referenced here, and in Spanish it's elegant and concise, but I think we lack a really comparable single-word expression. In the older prayer book we use (1928), "render" is used, as in "we render most heary thanks" if I recall right... The language has to do with offering what is due and yet unasked, from the giver's sense of right relationship.

Perhaps one sense of the original might be, "What Recompense?" Not poetic, tho! :~) At least I won't be trying to sing the English version!

~Susan