Psalms 9:5

God has rebuked the nations, destroyed the wicked, and blotted out their name forever. Divine judgment thoroughly removes persistent evil.

Cross-references · 20

• Prov 10:7The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
• Mal 4:3You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Rev 19:15Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.
• Prov 13:9The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
• Deut 9:14Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”
• Ps 78:55He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
• Ps 149:7To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
• Ps 79:10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
• 2 Sam 22:44–46You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.
• 2 Sam 17:23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
• 2 Sam 21:15–22The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
• Ps 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• 2 Sam 5:6–16The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “The blind and the lame will keep you out of here”; thinking, “David can’t come in here.”
• 1 Sam 31:4Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.
• Ps 5:6You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
• 2 Sam 8:1–15After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.
• 1 Sam 17:45–51Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
• 1 Sam 25:32David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!
• 2 Sam 10:6–9When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
• Ps 2:8–9Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

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