What Does Psalm 9:14 Mean?
That I may count out all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion; I dance in your deliverance.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.THE KEY
Deliverance becomes more than escape: it opens into a public voice of praise.
THE MEANING
Your deliverance finds a voice in the gates, where others can hear what God has done. Your joy gathers around the One who brings you out, and praise makes that deliverance known.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Deliverance is not merely private relief that ends in silence; here it opens into public praise.
THE ROOT
בִּישׁוּעָתֶךָ
bi-yeshuatekha
GROWS FROM
ישע
y-sh-ʿ
To deliver, bring to safety; deliverance that moves from constriction toward spaciousness.
The word translated “salvation” is yeshuah: deliverance that brings you out into room to live. The verse’s joy is not detached from that movement; it rises because you are being brought out.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: To deliver or rescue
יָשַׁע
This verbal form shows the movement inside yeshuah: deliverance is being brought out, not merely receiving a label of safety.
Yeshua: Deliverance; the name Yeshua
יֵשׁוּעַ
The name carries the same deliverance-root, so the verse’s rejoicing gathers around deliverance as a living nature.
תְּהִלָּתֶךָ
tehillatekha
GROWS FROM
הלל
h-l-l
To praise, celebrate, or speak aloud in praise.
Praise here is voiced where people gather and pass through, not held as a private thought. The same root sounds in Hallelujah: praise becomes speech that can be heard.
ALSO GROWS
Hallelujah: Praise the LORD
הַלְלוּיָהּ
This familiar cry shares the praise-root and echoes the verse’s outward, spoken response.
tehillim: Praises; the Psalms
תְּהִלִּים
The Psalms give praise a voice, just as this verse places it in Zion’s gates.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance becomes praise that others can hear, rather than remaining hidden inside the one who receives it.
He sets a new song in my mouth, praise to our God. Many see and stand in awe, and lean their weight upon the LORD.And on that day you will say, Extend your hands to the LORD, call upon his nature, make his doings known among the peoples, and speak aloud that his nature is lifted high.And leaping up, he stood and walked, and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.THE THREAD
Look, God is my deliverance. I will lean my full weight and not tremble, for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song, and he has become my deliverance.The Hebrew word translated “salvation” here is yeshuah, the same word-family as the deliverance in Psalm 9:14. Isaiah joins that deliverance to strength and song; the psalm gives the song its place in Zion’s gates.
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