Psalms 9

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A psalm of David.

1 [a][b]I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of 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, sitting enthroned as the righteous judge.
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 my enemies, 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 rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity.
9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
10 Those who know your name trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing the praises of 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 cries of the afflicted.
13 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 Daughter 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 acts of justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.[c]
17 The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.
18 But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.
19 Arise, LORD, do not let mortals triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.
20 Strike them with terror, LORD; let the nations know they are only mortal.

Images for Psalms 9

Cross References 47

  • 1. Psalms 86:12; Psalms 111:1; Psalms 119:2,10,145; Psalms 138:1
  • 2. S Deuteronomy 4:34; Psalms 26:7
  • 3. S Job 22:19; Psalms 14:7; Psalms 31:7; Psalms 70:4; Psalms 97:8; Psalms 126:3; Proverbs 23:15; Isaiah 25:9; Jeremiah 30:19; Joel 2:21; Zephaniah 3:14; S Matthew 5:12; Revelation 19:7; Psalms 5:11
  • 4. S 2 Chronicles 31:2
  • 5. Psalms 92:1; Psalms 83:18
  • 6. S 1 Kings 8:45
  • 7. S Job 16:21; Psalms 140:12
  • 8. Psalms 11:4; Psalms 47:8; Isaiah 6:1
  • 9. Psalms 7:11; Psalms 67:4; Psalms 98:9; 1 Peter 2:23
  • 10. Genesis 20:7; S Genesis 37:10; S 1 Chronicles 16:21; Psalms 59:5; Psalms 105:14; Isaiah 26:14; Isaiah 66:15
  • 11. S Job 18:17; Proverbs 10:7
  • 12. S Deuteronomy 29:28; Jeremiah 2:3; Jeremiah 46:1-51:58; Zephaniah 2:8-10
  • 13. Psalms 34:16; Psalms 109:15; Ecclesiastes 9:5; Isaiah 14:22; Isaiah 26:14
  • 14. S 1 Chronicles 16:31; Revelation 19:6
  • 15. Psalms 11:4; Psalms 47:8; Psalms 93:2; Isaiah 6:1; Isaiah 66:1; Psalms 89:14
  • 16. S ver 4; Psalms 7:11; Psalms 96:13
  • 17. Psalms 11:7; Psalms 45:6; Psalms 72:2
  • 18. S Deuteronomy 33:27; S 2 Samuel 22:3
  • 19. Psalms 10:18; Psalms 74:21
  • 20. Psalms 32:7; Psalms 121:7
  • 21. Psalms 91:14
  • 22. S Genesis 28:15; S Deuteronomy 4:31; Psalms 22:1; Psalms 37:25; Psalms 71:11; Isaiah 49:14; Jeremiah 15:18; Hebrews 13:5; Psalms 37:28
  • 23. Psalms 70:4
  • 24. Psalms 7:17
  • 25. S Psalms 2:6; Psalms 76:2
  • 26. Psalms 18:49; Psalms 44:11; Psalms 57:9; Psalms 106:27; Isaiah 24:13; Ezekiel 20:23; 1 Timothy 3:16; Psalms 107:22
  • 27. Psalms 105:1
  • 28. S 2 Samuel 4:11; Genesis 9:5
  • 29. ver 18; Psalms 10:17; Psalms 22:24; Psalms 72:4; Isaiah 49:13
  • 30. Numbers 10:9; Psalms 3:7; Psalms 18:3; Psalms 38:19
  • 31. Psalms 6:2; Psalms 41:4; Psalms 51:1; Psalms 86:3,16; Psalms 119:132
  • 32. S Job 17:16; Matthew 16:18
  • 33. Psalms 51:15; 1 Peter 2:9; Psalms 106:2
  • 34. 2 Kings 19:21; Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 10:32; Isaiah 37:22; Isaiah 62:11; Jeremiah 4:31; Jeremiah 6:2; Lamentations 1:6; Micah 1:13; Zephaniah 3:14; Zechariah 2:10; Matthew 21:5; John 12:15
  • 35. Psalms 13:5; Psalms 35:9; Psalms 50:23; Psalms 51:12
  • 36. S Job 4:8; Psalms 35:7; Psalms 7:15-16
  • 37. Psalms 35:8; Psalms 57:6
  • 38. Proverbs 5:22
  • 39. S Numbers 16:30; Proverbs 5:5; Psalms 49:14
  • 40. S Job 8:13; Psalms 50:22
  • 41. Psalms 25:3; Psalms 39:7; Psalms 71:5; Proverbs 23:18; Jeremiah 14:8
  • 42. ver 12; Psalms 74:19; Psalms 12:5
  • 43. Psalms 3:7
  • 44. 2 Chronicles 14:11
  • 45. Psalms 110:6; Isaiah 2:4; Joel 3:12
  • 46. S Genesis 35:5; Psalms 31:13; Isaiah 13:8; Luke 21:26
  • 47. Psalms 62:9; Isaiah 31:3; Ezekiel 28:2

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.
  • [b]. In Hebrew texts 9:1-20 is numbered 9:2-21.
  • [c]. The Hebrew has "Higgaion" and "Selah" (words of uncertain meaning) here; "Selah" occurs also at the end of verse 20.

Psalms 9 Commentaries

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