Psalm 9

From: Short Meditations on the Psalms: Chiefly in Their Prophectic Character By: John Gifford Bellett

Psalm 9 • 1 min. read • grade level: 8

This Psalm manifests itself very clearly. It is Messiah leading the praise of His righteous people in the latter day for the Lord’s destruction of their great enemy, and the consequent anticipated enthronement of Messiah in Zion. There is also a fine insultation over the enemy now thus fallen, kindred with that which the Spirit of Christ breathes in the prophet Isaiah over the king of Babylon (Isa. 14), and a recital of the cry of the afflicted ones in the day of their calamity.

The world is also declared as learning righteousness from God’s judgments in the latter day (Psa. 9:16¹⁶The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. (Psalm 9:16)), as in Isaiah 26:9⁹With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. (Isaiah 26:9). And the nature of those judgments also—the taking of the wicked in their own snare, as in Psalm 7:10¹⁰My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. (Psalm 7:10); Psa. 35; Psa. 67; Psa. 94; Psa. 109; Psa. 112. Haman’s destruction is the type of this (Esther 7; 10); and the cross is gloriously the illustration of the same, for there by death he that had the power of death was destroyed.