Psalm 9-10
1599 Geneva Bible
9 1 After he had given thanks to God for the sundry victories that he had sent him against his enemies, and also proved by manifold experience, how ready God was at hand in all his troubles. 14 He being now likewise in danger of new enemies, desireth God to help him according to his wont, 17 and to destroy the malicious arrogance of his adversaries.
To him that excelleth upon [a]Muth Labben. A Psalm of David.
1 I will praise the Lord with my [b]whole heart: I will speak of all thy marvelous works.
2 I will be glad, and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy Name, O most High.
3 For that mine enemies are turned back: they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
4 For [c]thou hast maintained my right and my cause: thou art set in the throne, and judgest right.
5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen: thou hast destroyed the wicked: thou hast put out their name forever and ever.
6 [d]O enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end, and thou hast destroyed the cities: their memorial is perished with them.
7 But the Lord [e]shall sit forever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
8 For he shall judge the world in righteousness, and shall judge the people with equity.
9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the [f]poor, a refuge in due time, even in affliction.
10 And they that know thy Name, will trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not failed them that seek thee.
11 Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion: show the people his works.
12 For [g]when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth it, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.
13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord: consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death,
14 That I may show all thy praises within the [h]gates of the daughter of Zion, and rejoice in thy salvation.
15 The heathen are [i]sunken down in the pit that they made: in the net that they hid, is their foot taken.
16 [j]The Lord is known by executing judgment: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands, [k]Higgaion. Selah.
17 The wicked shall turn into hell, and all nations that forget God.
18 For the poor shall not be always forgotten: the hope [l]of the afflicted shall not perish forever.
19 Up Lord: let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
20 Put them in fear, O Lord, that the heathen may know that they are but [m]men. Selah.
10 1 He complaineth of the fraud, rapine, tyranny, and all kinds of wrong, which worldly men use, assigning the cause thereof, that wicked men, being as it were drunken with worldly prosperity, and therefore setting apart all fear and reverence towards God, think they may do all things without controlling. 15 Therefore he calleth upon God to send some remedy against these desperate evils, 16 and at length comforteth himself with hope of deliverance.
1 Why standest thou far off, O Lord, and hidest thee in [n]due time, even in affliction?
2 The wicked with pride doth persecute the poor; let them be taken in the crafts that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked hath [o]made boast of his own heart’s desire, and the covetous blesseth himself, he contemneth the Lord.
4 The wicked is so proud, that he seeketh not for God: he thinketh always, There is no God.
5 His ways always prosper: thy judgments are high above his sight; therefore [p]defieth he all his enemies.
6 He saith in his heart, I shall [q]never be moved, [r]nor be in danger.
7 His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
8 [s]He lieth in wait in the villages; in the secret places doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are bent against the poor.
9 He lieth in wait secretly, even as a lion in his den; he lieth in wait to spoil the poor; he doth spoil the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10 He croucheth and boweth; therefore heaps of the [t]poor do fall by his might.
11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will never see.
12 [u]Arise, O Lord God, lift up thine hand; forget not the poor.
13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not [v]regard.
14 Yet thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and wrong; that thou mayest [w]take it into thine hands; the poor committeth himself unto thee; for thou art the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and malicious; search his wickedness, and thou shalt find [x]none.
16 The Lord is King forever and ever; the [y]heathen are destroyed forth of his land.
17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poor; thou preparest their heart; thou bendest thine ear to them,
18 [z]To judge the fatherless and poor, that earthly man [aa]cause to fear no more.
Footnotes
- Psalm 9:1 Or, kind of instrument, or tune, or for the death of Labben or Goliath.
- Psalm 9:1 God is not praised, except the whole glory be given to him alone.
- Psalm 9:4 Howsoever the enemy seems for a time to prevail, yet God preserveth the just.
- Psalm 9:6 A derision of the enemy, that mindeth nothing but destruction: but the Lord will deliver his, and bring him into judgment.
- Psalm 9:7 Or, reign as Judge.
- Psalm 9:9 Our miseries are means to cause us to feel God’s present care over us.
- Psalm 9:12 Though God revengeth not suddenly the wrong done to his, yet he suffereth not the wicked unpunished.
- Psalm 9:14 In the open assembly of the Church.
- Psalm 9:15 For God overthroweth the wicked in their enterprises.
- Psalm 9:16 The mercy of God toward his Saints must be declared, and the fall of the wicked must always be considered.
- Psalm 9:16 Or, this is worthy to be noted.
- Psalm 9:18 God promiseth not to help us before we have felt the cross.
- Psalm 9:20 Which they cannot learn without the fear of thy judgment.
- Psalm 10:1 So soon as we enter into affliction, we think God should help us, but that is not always his due time.
- Psalm 10:3 The wicked man rejoiceth in his own lust, he boasteth when he hath that he would: he braggeth of his wit and wealth, and blesseth himself, and thus blasphemeth the Lord.
- Psalm 10:5 Or, snuffeth at.
- Psalm 10:6 Or, not be moved, because he was never in evil.
- Psalm 10:6 The evil shall not touch me, Isa. 28:15, or else he speaketh thus because he never felt evil.
- Psalm 10:8 He showeth that the wicked have many means to hide their cruelty, and therefore ought more to be feared.
- Psalm 10:10 By the hypocrisy of them that have authority, the poor are devoured.
- Psalm 10:12 He calleth to God for help, because wickedness is so far overgrown, that God must now help or never.
- Psalm 10:13 Therefore thou must needs punish this their blasphemy.
- Psalm 10:14 To judge between the right and the wrong.
- Psalm 10:15 For thou hast utterly destroyed him.
- Psalm 10:16 The hypocrites or such as live not after God’s Law, shall be destroyed.
- Psalm 10:18 God helpeth when man’s help ceaseth.
- Psalm 10:18 Or, destroy no more man upon the earth.
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