Psalms 9

0For the director, according to Muth-labben. A psalm of David.

Praise for God's Righteous Judgment

1I will give thanks to Yahweh with all my heart; I will recount all your wonders.

2I will rejoice and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

3When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before your presence.

4For you have upheld my judgment and my cause; you sat on the throne, judging in righteousness.

5You rebuked the nations, you destroyed the wicked; their name you blotted out forever and ever.

6The enemy have come to an end in perpetual ruins; and the cities you uprooted—their very memory has perished, they themselves.

7But Yahweh sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for judgment.

8And he himself will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with equity.

9And may Yahweh be a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

10And those who know your name will trust in you, for you have not forsaken those who seek you, Yahweh.

11Sing praise to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion; declare among the peoples his deeds.

12For the one who avenges bloodshed remembers them; he has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

13Be gracious to me, Yahweh; see my affliction from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death,

14so that I may recount all your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion; I will rejoice in your salvation.

15The nations have sunk into the pit they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot is caught.

16Yahweh has made himself known; he has executed judgment; by the work of his own hands the wicked is ensnared. Higgaion. Selah.

17The wicked will return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

18For the needy will not be forgotten forever; the hope of the poor will not perish for all time.

19Arise, Yahweh! Let not mortal man prevail; let the nations be judged before your presence.

20Set a terror over them, Yahweh; let the nations know that they are but mortal. Selah.

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Cross-references in this chapter

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Praise for God's Righteous Judgment

• parallel Psalms 96:13 — Near-identical formula that Yahweh will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.
• parallel Psalms 98:9 — Same phrasing of God judging the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.
• allusion Acts 17:31 — Paul's declaration that God will judge the world in righteousness echoes this psalm's formula.
• echoed in Acts 17:22 — God will judge the world in righteousness echoes the psalm's declaration of righteous judgment of the world.
• echoed in Job 38:4 — Shared image of the 'gates of death' as a place beyond human reach.
• echoed in Lamentations 5:19 — Shared affirmation that Yahweh sits enthroned/rules forever.
• allusion Psalms 107:18 — Shared imagery of the gates of death from which Yahweh delivers.
• echoed in Psalms 138:1 — Shared distinctive phrase of wholehearted thanksgiving to Yahweh.
• thematic Genesis 9:5 — Motif of God as the avenger of bloodshed who requires reckoning for shed blood.
• thematic Job 18:1 — Shared imagery of the wicked being caught in the net/trap they themselves set.
• thematic Psalms 29:10 — Shared image of Yahweh enthroned forever as eternal King.
• thematic Psalms 46:1 — Same motif of God as refuge/stronghold in times of trouble.
• thematic Psalms 7:15 — Shared motif of the wicked falling into the pit and net they themselves made.
• thematic Psalms 76:2 — Shared depiction of Yahweh as the one who dwells in Zion.
• thematic Psalms 10:12 — Continues the theme of the afflicted/poor not being forgotten, paired in acrostic with Psalm 10.
• thematic Psalms 7:1 — The wicked fall into the pit they dug and are caught in their own net.
• thematic Psalms 10:1 — Both petition 'Arise, Yahweh' against the wicked, linking Psalms 9 and 10 as a unit.
• thematic Psalms 35:1 — The wicked falling into the very net/pit they secretly prepared.