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.
Ver. 47. Save us, O Lord our God] This is the main request of the psalm, and the chief thing intended; for for this cause prefaced the prophet, as Psalms 106:1,2, &c., and reckoned up the people's sins and God's deliverances, that he might bring in this, "Save us," as thou ever hast done.
To give thanks unto thy holy name] Good ends propounded in prayer is a special means of speeding. Hypocrites do all in themselves, so do not the saints, Hosea 14:8; and all for themselves, as Zec 7:5 Hosea 10:1, which is not the saints' practice, Song of Solomon 5:1, they have good aims in their good actions.