Psalm 9

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To the choirmaster: according to Mut Labein. A Psalm of David.

 מות לבן (mut labein) = “death of Labein / Laban”

א   1-2  I will give thanks to Adonai with my whole heart; I will recount all of Your wonderful deeds. ² I will be glad and exult in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

ב  3-4  When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before Your presence. ⁴ For You have maintained my just cause; You have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

ג  5  You have rebuked nations; You have made the wicked perish; You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

גוים (goyim) = “nations” [usually referring to Gentiles]

לעולם ועד (le’olam va’ed) = “to the age and until”

εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων (eis tous aionas ton aionon) = “unto the age of the ages”

——– ד missing ——–

ה 6   O enemy – ruins have come to an end forever; the cities you destroyed – their remembrance has perished. [see v.15]

נצח (netzach) = “enduring due to victory”

ו  7-10  But Adonai sits enthroned forever [le’olam]. He has established His throne for justice ⁸ and He judges the worldwith righteousness. He judges the peoples with fairness.      ⁹ Adonai is a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble. ¹⁰ And those who know Your name put their trust in You, for You, O Adonai, have not forsaken those who seek You.

תבל (teivel) = “world”

ז  11-12  Sing praises to Adonai, who sits enthroned in Zion! Tell among the peoples His deeds! ¹² For He who avenges [lit. “seeks”] blood is mindful of them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

ח  13-14  Be gracious to me, Adonai! See my affliction from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death, ¹⁴ that I may recount all Your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will rejoice in Your salvation.

ט  15-16  [Wherever] the nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught – ¹⁶ [there] Adonai has made Himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higaion. Selah

הגיון From הגה (hagah)=  “to meditate”

י  17  The wicked shall return [or ‘retreat’] to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

כ  8-20  For the needy shall not always [netzach] be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever. ¹⁹Arise, O Adonai! Let not man [enosh] prevail; let the nations be judged before You! ²⁰ Place Your mastery over them, O Adonai! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah

לעד (la’ad) = “to until”

 מורה (morah) = “teacher”

REFERENCES:

Verse 5

Psalm 2:1  Why do the nations [גוים, goyim] rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalm 2:8  Ask of Me, and I will make the nations [גוים, goyim] your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.

Genesis 12:2  “And I will make of you [ie. Abraham] a great nation [גוי, goy], and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.”

Verse 8

Leviticus 18:23  And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion (תבל, tevel). [+ 20:12]

Verse 12

Genesis 4:10  And Adonai said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.”

Verse 16

Psalm 19:14  Let the words of my mouth and the meditation [הגיון, higaion] of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Adonai, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Psalm 92:3  …to the music of the lute and the harp, a meditation  [הגיון, higaion] on the lyre.

Lamentations 3:62  The lips and thoughts  [הגיון, higaion] of my assailants are against me all the day long.

Verse 19

Psalm 7:6  Arise, Adonai, in Your anger; lift Yourself up against the fury of my enemies. Awake for me. You have appointed a judgment.