“That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.”
The statement that the psalmist may tell all God's praises at the gates of the daughter of Zion and rejoice in His salvation establishes that deliverance enables public thanksgiving in the sanctuary. The gates of Zion imagery suggests the temple and the assembled community, making the speaker's rescue occasion for communal celebration. The connection between telling praises and rejoicing in salvation suggests that the psalmist's deliverance becomes material for witness and worship. This verse establishes that salvation has both private (personal rescue) and public (communal witness) dimensions.
Church Fathers on Psalms 9:14
1. The inscription of this Psalm is, “To the end for the hidden things of the Son, a Psalm of David himself.” As to the hidden things of the Son there may be a question: but since he has not added whose, the very only-begotten Son of God should be understood. For where a Psalm has been inscribed of the son of David, “When,” he says, “he fled from the face of Absalom his son;” although his name even was mentioned, and therefore there could be no obscurity as to whom it was…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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