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Scott's Reference Library
Psalm 9:1 through Psalm 9:20 (NIV)
1 I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart;
I will tell of all your wonders.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
3 My enemies turn back;
they stumble and perish before you.
4 For you have upheld my right and my cause;
you have sat on your throne, judging righteously.
5 You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;
you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
6 Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy,
you have uprooted their cities;
even the memory of them has perished.
7 The LORD reigns forever;
he has established his throne for judgment.
8 He will judge the world in righteousness;
he will govern the peoples with justice.
9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
10 Those who know your name will trust in you,
for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion;
proclaim among the nations what he has done.
12 For he who avenges blood remembers;
he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
13 O LORD, see how my enemies persecute me!
Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
14 that I may declare your praises
in the gates of the Daughter of Zion
and there rejoice in your salvation.
15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;
their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
16 The LORD is known by his justice;
the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.
Higgaion. Selah
17 The wicked return to the grave,
all the nations that forget God.
18 But the needy will not always be forgotten,
nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.
19 Arise, O LORD, let not man triumph;
let the nations be judged in your presence.
20 Strike them with terror, O LORD;
let the nations know they are but men.
Selah
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 1-10
If we would praise God acceptably, we must praise him in sincerity, with our
whole heart. When we give thanks for some one particular mercy, we should
remember former mercies. Our joy must not be in the gift, so much as in the
Giver. The triumphs of the Redeemer ought to be the triumphs of the redeemed.
The almighty power of God is that which the strongest and stoutest of his
enemies are no way able to stand before. We are sure that the judgment of God is
according to truth, and that with him there is no unrighteousness. His people
may, by faith, flee to him as their Refuge, and may depend on his power and
promise for their safety, so that no real hurt shall be done to them. Those who
know him to be a God of truth and faithfulness, will rejoice in his word of
promise, and rest upon that. Those who know him to be an everlasting Father,
will trust him with their souls as their main care, and trust in him at all
times, even to the end; and by constant care seek to approve themselves to him
in the whole course of their lives. Who is there that would not seek him, who
never hath forsaken those that seek Him?
VERSES 11-20
Those who believe that God is greatly to be praised, not only desire to praise
him better themselves, but desire that others may join with them. There is a day
coming, when it will appear that he has not forgotten the cry of the humble;
neither the cry of their blood, or the cry of their prayers. We are never
brought so low, so near to death, but God can raise us up. If he has saved us
from spiritual and eternal death, we may thence hope, that in all our distresses
he will be a very present help to us. The overruling providence of God
frequently so orders it, that persecutors and oppressors are brought to ruin by
the projects they formed to destroy the people of God. Drunkards kill
themselves; prodigals beggar themselves; the contentious bring mischief upon
themselves: thus men’s sins may be read in their punishment, and it becomes
plain to all, that the destruction of sinners is of themselves. All wickedness
came originally with the wicked one from hell; and those who continue in sin,
must go to that place of torment. The true state, both of nations and of
individuals, may be correctly estimated by this one rule, whether in their
doings they remember or forget God. David encourages the people of God to wait
for his salvation, though it should be long deferred. God will make it appear
that he never did forget them: it is not possible he should. Strange that man,
dust in his and about him, should yet need some sharp affliction, some severe
visitation from God, to bring him to the knowledge of himself, and make him feel
who and what he is.