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Psalm 9

Psa. 9:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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When mine enemies
'oyeb (Hebrew #341)
active participle of 340; hating; an adversary
KJV usage: enemy, foe.
Pronounce: o-yabe'
Origin: or (fully) owyeb {o-yabe'}
are turned
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
back
'achowr (Hebrew #268)
from 299; the hinder part; hence (adverb) behind, backward; also (as facing north) the West
KJV usage: after(-ward), back (part, -side, -ward), hereafter, (be-)hind(-er part), time to come, without.
Pronounce: aw-khore'
Origin: or (shortened) achor {aw-khore'}
, they shall fall
kashal (Hebrew #3782)
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
KJV usage: bereave (from the margin), cast down, be decayed, (cause to) fail, (cause, make to) fall (down, -ing), feeble, be (the) ruin(-ed, of), (be) overthrown, (cause to) stumble, X utterly, be weak.
Pronounce: kaw-shal'
Origin: a primitive root
and perish
'abad (Hebrew #6)
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
KJV usage: break, destroy(- uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
at thy presence
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 68:1‑2• 1To the chief musician; of David, a psalm, a song.{HR}Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered,{HR}And those that hate him flee from before him.
 2As smoke is driven, thou wilt drive away;{HR}As wax melteth before fire,{HR}The wicked shall perish from before God. (Psa. 68:1‑2)
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Psa. 76:7• 7Thou [art] terrible, thou;{HR}And who shall stand in thy presence when once [in] thine anger? (Psa. 76:7)
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Psa. 80:16• 16[It is] burned with fire, cut down:{HR}At the rebuke of thy face they perish. (Psa. 80:16)
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Isa. 64:3• 3When thou didst terrible things we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. (Isa. 64:3)
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2 Thess. 1:9• 9Who shall pay as penalty everlasting destruction from [the] presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, (2 Thess. 1:9)
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Rev. 6:12‑17• 12And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
 13and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree shaken by a great wind casteth its untimely figs.
 14And the heaven departed as a scroll rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
 15And the kings of the earth and the great men and the chiliarchs and the rich and the mighty and every bondman and freeman hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;
 16and they say to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
 17for the great day of his wrath is come; and who is able to stand? (Rev. 6:12‑17)
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Rev. 20:11• 11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. (Rev. 20:11)
• The blessings of the psalm are introduced by the presence of the Lord, and the brightness of His coming in glory. (“Psalm 9” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished at thy presence:

W. Kelly Translation

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When mine enemies turn back,{HR}They stumble and perish from before thee.