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Psalms 9

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Part of Book I📖 Psalms introduction

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1For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm by David. I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works. ✦ 2I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. ✦ 3When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence. ✦ 4For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously. ✦ 5You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever. ✦ 6The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished. ✦ 7But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment. ✦ 8He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness. ✦ 9Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble. ✦ 10Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you. ✦ 11Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done. ✦ 12For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted. ✦ 13Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death; ✦ 14that I may show all of your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation. ✦ 15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. ✦ 16Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah. ✦ 17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God. ✦ 18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever. ✦ 19Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight. ✦ 20Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 102 ·5Ps 7 ·5Rev 20 ·5Exod 14 ·4Ps 76 ·4Ps 51 ·4Ps 50 ·4Ps 5 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 9 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 9David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 9Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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