Psalms 14:7

7. Oh that the salvation of Israel Or, who will give the salvation of Israel. It is a form of ardent wish that by some one deliverance might be given, as Psalms 55:6.

Out of Zion Here meaning the Jewish Church, as the depositary of God’s truth. The true Hebrew looked for national blessings only from this source, as the New Testament saint expects all public prosperity through the Church. Even during the exile, when Jerusalem, of which Zion was a part, was in ruins, prayer was made with the face thitherward, (1 Kings 8:44; 1 Kings 8:48; Daniel 6:10,) and all hope of the nation was associated with its restoration. Psalms 102:13; Psalms 102:16; Psalms 129:5. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah abundantly show this. The passage in question has also been considered Messianic, a reference to the salvation of spiritual Israel by Christ. See Isaiah 59:20; Romans 11:26.

When the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people To bring back the captivity is to return the captives to their own country and national rights, and is the standing formula for the returning of the Babylonian exiles, as in Psalms 126:1; Jeremiah 30:3; Joel 3:1; Zephaniah 3:20. It is a political, implying a moral, restitution. The force and transitive form of the verb, with שׁבות , ( shebooth,) captivity, admits no other sense.

Jacob shall rejoice See Psalms 126:0 and Hosea 6:11. So shall the Church of Christ rejoice in the gathering of her converts and her full restoration. Isaiah 12:0; Isaiah 35:8-10.