Psalms 9:5

_THOU HAST REBUKED THE HEATHEN, THOU HAST DESTROYED THE WICKED, THOU HAST PUT OUT THEIR NAME FOR EVER AND EVER._ Thou hast rebuked - not in mere word, as man rebukes, but with actual punishments inflicted; because God's Word shall be operative as a terrible reality to the lost (Psalms 106:9; cf. Psalms 68:30). THE PAGAN - Hebrew, 'the nations' х_ GOWYIM_ (H1471)] - namely, those confederate against Messiah, of which nations those leagued against David and Israel were the type. THOU HAST DESTROYED THE WICKED - Hebrew, singular, 'the wicked one:' the same as the "enemy," next verse....

1-10 If we would praise God acceptably, we must praise him in sincerity, with our whole heart. When we give thanks for some one particular mercy, we should remember former mercies. Our joy must not be in the gift, so much as in the Giver. The triumphs of the Redeemer ought to be the triumphs of the redeemed. The almighty power of God is that which the strongest and stoutest of his enemies are no way able to stand before. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth, and that with him there is no unrighteousness. His people may, by faith, flee to him as their Refuge, and may depend on his power and promise for their safety, so that no real hurt shall be done to them. Those who know him to be a God of truth and faithfulness, will rejoice in his word of promise, and rest upon that. Those who know him to be an everlasting Father, will trust him with their souls as their main c...

Verse Psalms 9:5. _THOU HAST REBUKED THE HEATHEN_] We know not what this particularly refers to, but it is most probably to the Canaanitish nations, which God destroyed from off the face of the earth; hence it is said, _Thou hast put out their name for ever and ever_, לעולם ועד leolam vaed, endlessly. Here עולם _olam_ has its proper signification, _without end_. He who contends it means only _a_ _limited time_, let him tell us _where_ the Hivites, Perizzites, Jebusites, c., now dwell and _when_ it is likely they are to be restored to Canaan....

THOU HAST REBUKED THE HEATHEN - Not the pagan in general, or the nations at large, but those who are particularly referred to in this psalm - those who are described as the enemies of the writer and of God. On the word rendered “heathen” here - גוים _gôyim_ - see the notes at Psalms 2:1. The word rebuke here does not mean, as it does usually with us, to chide with words, but it means that he had done this by deeds; that is, by overcoming or vanquishing them. The reference is, undoubtedly, to some of those nations with whom the writer had been at war, and who were the enemies of himself and of God, and to some signal act of the divine interposition by which they had been overcome, or in which the author of the psalm had gained a victory. DeWette understands this as referring to “barbarians, foreigners, pagan?” David, in the course of

EXPOSITION This psalm, which, like the six preceding it, is declared by the title to be "a Psalm of David," is a song of thanksgiving for the defeat of some foreign enemy. It is the first of what are called "the alphabetic psalms;" but the law of alphabetic order is applied in it somewhat loosely and irregularly. All the four lines of the first stanza commence with _aleph_;_ _but after this it is only the first line of each stanza that observes the law. And even this amount of observance is neglected in the last stanza. The poem is one of the most regular in its structure of all the psalms, consisting as it does of ten equal strophes of four lines each. The words in the title, "upon Muth-labben," have been variously explained; but no explanation hitherto given is satisfactory. PSALMS 9:1 I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole he

THOU HAST REBUKED THE HEATHEN,.... The people of the Philistines, as the Targum and Kimchi explain it, though some Jewish writers a understand it of Amalek the chief of the Heathen nations; but it rather refers to Gospel times, and to the rebukes of the Heathen, by the preaching of the Gospel, for their idolatry and superstition; and especially to the latter day, and to the rebukes of the antichristian states, the Papists who are called Gentiles; which will be with flames of fire, and will issue in their utter extirpation, upon which a profound peace and prosperity will succeed in the Christian churches, according to Isaiah 2:4; which is a prophecy of those times; THOU HAST DESTROYED THE WICKED; the wicked man; for it is in the singular number, "labben", as Aben Ezra observes, or who is meant by him; Goliath, according to the Targum and Kimchi; or Esau, as other Jewish writers

This Psalm has a dedication which is very difficult to understand: «To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.» Either «Muthlabben» is the tune to which the Psalm was to be sung, or some musical instrument that is now forgotten, or else it alludes to Ben, who was one of the Levitical singers mentioned in 1 Chronicles 15:18. In all probability, however, the true translation of the title is, «A Psalm on the death of the son,» or «on the death of the champion,» and it is thought by some that it was composed by David after the death of giant Goliath. If it be so, I think you will see, as we read the Psalm, that it well proclaims the victory which God had wrought. Psalms 9:1. _I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works._...

Psalms 9 THE GODLY REMNANT. THE WICKED ONE AND HIS FOLLOWERS (9-15) _ 1. The praise of the Most High (Psalms 9:1)_ 2. Millennial deliverances and glories (Psalms 9:3) 3. Prayer for divine intervention: Faith's Vision (Psalms 9:12) Psalms 9:1. PSALM 9-15 continue the great prophetic story. Once more the godly remnant is before us and in this section the wicked one, the man of sin, is also revealed. The first part of this Psalm is a prophetic vision of what will be on earth, when the Son of Man has come and when all things are put unde

9 AND 10. YAHWEH THE REFUGE OF HIS PEOPLE. These two Pss., divided in MT, were originally one, This is proved by the fact that they are one in LXX. and Vulg., by the absence of title over Psalms 10, and, conclusively, by the evidence that 9 and 10 form one acrostic poem. It was arranged in strophes of four lines each, the first letter of each strophe being one of the letters of the Heb. alphabet in regular succession. This system is carried out in the whole of Psalms 9-2 in Psalms 10. So far we have the first twelve letters of the alphabet, the only omission being that of the fourth letter, which, however, can be supplied by an easy and convincing emendation. Then from Psalms 10:3 to Psalms 10:11 the acrostic character disappears and can be recovered only by precarious emendation. It reappears in...

HEATHEN. nations. THE WICKED. a lawless one: i.e. the Antichrist. Compare Psalms 10:3; Psalms 10:13; Psalms 10:14; Psalms 10:15. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. PUT OUT. blotted out. FOR EVER, &C. Compare Psalms 10:16....