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.
1Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son, a psalm for David.
2I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will relate all thy wonders.
3I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou most high.
4When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened and perish before thy face.
5For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.
6Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished: thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
7The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise:
8but the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in judgment:
9and he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice.
10And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.
11And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.
12Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among the Gentiles:
13For requiring their blood he hath remembered them he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.
14Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies.
15Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
16I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they have prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.
17The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.
18The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.
19For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.
20Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.
21Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.
22Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time of trouble?
23Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.
24For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.
25The sinner hath provoked the Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him:
26God is not before his eyes: his ways are filthy at all times. Thy judgments are removed from his sight: he shall rule over all his enemies.
27For he hath said in his heart: I shall not be moved from generation to generation, and shall be without evil.
28His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labour and sorrow.
29He sitteth in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent.
30His eyes are upon the poor man: He lieth in wait in secret like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush that he may catch the poor man: to catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.
31In his net he will bring him down, he will crouch and fall, when he shall have power over the poor.
32For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face not to see to the end.
33Arise, O Lord God, let thy hand be exalted: forget not the poor.
34Wherefore hath the wicked provoked God? for he hath said in his heart: He will not require it.
35Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou wilt be a helper to the orphan.
36Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin shall be sought, and shall not be found.
37The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea, for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish from his land.
38The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard the preparation of their heart.
39To judge for the fatherless and for the humble, that man may no more presume to magnify himself upon earth.
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