Psalms 9
9
Triumphant Thanks
For the Pure and Shining One
To the tune of “The Secrets of the Son” # 9 As translated by Augustine, an early church father. The Hebrew is “to the death of the son.” Because of David’s sin with Bathsheba, the son born to them had to die, not as a judgment upon the child, but as a sacrifice to cleanse David of his sin. This was God’s way of restoring David. A sinless son bore the guilt. This is a picture of Jesus!
A Psalm of David
Delighting in God
1I will worship you, Yahweh, with extended hands
as my whole heart erupts with praise! # 9:1 The Hebrew word for “praise” is yadah, which can mean “to shoot [an arrow]” or “to worship with extended hands.” It implies an ecstatic burst of praise that is thrown into the heavens like a shout. It is the praise that breaks strongholds. A fresh determination arose in David’s spirit to praise his way into victory.
I will tell everyone everywhere about your wonderful works!
2I will be glad and shout in triumph.
I will sing praise to your exalted name, O Most High.
Deliverance
3For when you appear, I worship
you while my enemies run in retreat.
They stumble and perish before your presence.
4For you have stood up for my cause
and vindicated me when I needed you the most.
From your righteous throne you have given me justice.
Divine Judgment
5With a blast of your rebuke, nations are destroyed.
You obliterated their names forever and ever.
6The Lord thundered and our enemies have been cut off,
vanished in everlasting ruins.
All their cities have been destroyed—
even the memory of them has been erased.
7But Yahweh, our mighty God, reigns forever!
He sits enthroned as King ready to render his verdicts
and judge all with righteousness.
8He will issue his decrees of judgment,
deciding what is right for the entire world,
dispensing justice to all.
9All who are oppressed may come to Yahweh as a high
shelter in the time of trouble, a perfect hiding place.
10For everyone who knows your wonderful name
keeps putting their trust in you.
They can count on you for help no matter what.
O Lord, you will never, no never, neglect those
who come to you.
11Listen, everyone! Sing out your praises to the God
who rules in Zion!
Tell the world about all the miracles he has done!
12He tracks down killers and avenges bloodshed,
but he will never forget the ones forgotten by others,
hearing every one of their cries for justice.
Daughter of Zion
13So now, O Lord, don’t forget me.
Have mercy on me.
Take note of how I’ve been humiliated
at the hands of those who hate me.
You are the one who can snatch me away from the gates of death.
14Then I will sing your praises as I pass through the gates
of the Daughter of Zion, rejoicing in your deliverance!
15For the nations get trapped
in the very snares they set for others.
The hidden trap they set for the weak
has snapped shut upon themselves!
16Yahweh is famous for his justice.
While the wicked are digging a pit for others,
they are actually setting the terms for their own judgment.
They will fall into their own pit.
Consider the truth of this # 9:16 The Hebrew word higgaion means “to consider the truth of the matter.”
and pause in his presence
Destruction of the Wicked
17Don’t forget this: all the wicked will one day
fall into the darkness of death’s domain, # 9:17 This is the word Sheol, the underworld, which is frequently translated “hell.”
including the nations that forget God and reject his ways.
18He will not forget the needs of the poor.
One day the needy will be remembered,
and their hopes will not be forever dashed in disappointment.
19Yahweh, it’s time to arise and judge
the nations who defy you.
Don’t let rebellious men triumph.
20Make them tremble in fear before your presence.
Place a lawgiver over them.
Make them know that they are only puny, frail humans
who must give account to you!
Pause in his presence
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PSALM 9
1 Into the end, for the privates of the son, the psalm of David. Lord, I shall acknowledge to thee in all mine heart; I shall tell all thy marvels.
2Thou Highest, I shall be glad, and I shall be fully joyful [or full out joy] in thee; I shall sing to thy name.
3For thou turnest mine enemy aback; they shall be made feeble, and shall perish from thy face.
4For thou hast made my doom, and my cause; thou, that deemest rightfulness [or rightwiseness], hast set on the throne.
5Thou hast blamed heathen men, and the wicked perished; thou hast done away the name of them into the world, and into the world of world.
6The swords of the enemy have failed into the end; and thou hast destroyed the cities of them. The mind of them hath perished with sound;
7and the Lord dwelleth without end. He hath made ready his throne in doom;
8and he shall deem the world in equity, he shall deem peoples in rightfulness [or rightwiseness].
9And the Lord is made refuge, either help, to a poor man; an helper in covenable times in tribulation.
10And they, that know thy name, have hope in thee; for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
11Sing ye [psalms] to the Lord, that dwelleth in Zion; tell ye his studies among heathen men.
12God forgetteth not the cry of poor men; for he hath mind of them, and he seeketh the blood of them.
13Lord, have thou mercy on me; see thou my meekness of mine enemies. Which enhancest me from the gates of death;
14that I tell all thy praisings in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I shall be fully joyful or joy fully in thine health;
15heathen men be fast-set in the perishing, which they made. In this snare, which they hid, the foot of them is caught.
16The Lord making dooms shall be known; the sinner is taken in the works of his hands.
17Sinners be turned altogether into hell; all folks, that forget God.
18For the forgetting of a poor man shall not be into the end; the patience of poor men shall not perish into the end.
19Lord, rise thou up, a man be not comforted; [the] folks be deemed in thy sight.
20Lord, ordain thou a law-maker upon them; know folks, that they be men.
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