Save us, O Lord our God, And gather us from among the Gentiles, To give thanks to Your holy name, To triumph in Your praise.
Parallel translations
- WEB Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!
- KJV Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
- BSB Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.
- NASB ¶Save us, Lord our God, And gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Your holy name And glory in Your praise.
- NLT Save us, O Lord our God! Gather us back from among the nations, so we can thank your holy name and rejoice and praise you.
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Quick answer
The psalmist pleads for God to save and gather his scattered people so they can praise his name.
Overview
This prayer, fitting the exile, asks God to regather Israel from the nations for the purpose of thanksgiving and praise. Salvation is sought not merely for relief but so that God's holy name might be honored. The longing to be gathered from the nations anticipates the gospel's wider ingathering, as Christ gathers a people from every nation to glorify God forever.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- 1 Chr 16:35–36Say, “Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise.”
- Rev 7:10–12They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
- 2 Cor 2:14Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
- Ps 107:1–3Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
- Ps 14:7Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
- Ezek 36:24–28For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
- Ezek 39:25–29Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.
- Jer 32:37–41“Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
- Ps 126:1A Song of Ascents. When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
- Ezek 37:21–28Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
- Ps 147:2Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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