--- title: "Psalms 9 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read Psalms 9 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/clarkes-commentary/psalms/9" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/9)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/9)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/9) Audio 1 I will praise *thee*, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High. 3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence. 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.** 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. 6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.* 7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. 9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.* 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. 11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. 12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.* 13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble *which I suffer* of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: 14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit *that* they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 The LORD is known *by* the judgment *which* he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.* 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, *and* all the nations that forget God. 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall *not* perish for ever. 19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. 20 Put them in fear, O LORD: *that* the nations may know themselves *to be but* men. Selah. [Psalms 8](/study/psalms/8) [Psalms 10](/study/psalms/10) ## Commentary To verse 1 The inscription to this Psalm in the HEBREW text is, *To the* *chief Musician upon Muth-lab-ben, A Psalm of David*. The CHALDEE has, "A Song of David, to be sung concerning the Death of the Strong Man, (or *champion*, דגברא degabra,) who went out between the Camps;" that is, Goliath, on account of whose defeat this Psalm has been supposed by many to have been composed. The date in the margin is several years posterior to the death of Goliath. See the introduction. The VULGATE: A Psalm of David, for the end; concerning the secrets of the Son." The SEPTUAGINT and AETHIOPIC are the same with the *Vulgate*. The SYRIAC: "A Psalm of David concerning Christ's receiving the throne and the kingdom, and defeating his enemies. The ARABIC: "Concerning the mysteries of the Son, as to the glory of Christ, his resurrection, and kingdom, and the destruction of all the disobedient." *Houbigant* causes the Hebrew title to agree with the *Vulgate,* *Septuagint*, and *AEthiopic*, by uniting על מות *al muth*, "concerning the death," into the word עלמות *alamoth*, which signifies *secrets* or hidden things. "To the chief musician, or conqueror; secrets concerning the Son: A Psalm of David. About a hundred MSS. and printed editions unite the words as above. Some translate עלמות *alamoth*, "concerning the youth or infancy; the infancy of the Son." Several of the *fathers* have on this ground interpreted it, "concerning the *incarnation* of our Lord." Indeed the title and the Psalm have been so variously understood, that it would be as painful as it would be useless to follow the different commentators, both ancient and modern, through all their conjectures. Verse [Psalms 9:1](/kjv/psalms/9/1). ***I will praise*****thee,*****O Lord, with my whole heart*** — And it is only when the *whole heart* is employed in the work that God can look upon it with acceptance. ***I will show forth*** — אספרה *asapperah*, "I will *number out*, or *reckon up*;" a very difficult task, נפלאותיך *niphleotheycha*, "thy miracles;" supernatural interventions of thy power and goodness. He whose eye is attentive to the operation of God's hand will find many of these. In the Vulgate this Psalm begins with *Confitebor* *tibi, Domine*, "I will confess unto thee, O Lord," which my old MS. above quoted translates thus: *I sal schrife Lard, til the, in al* *my hert, I sal tel al twi wonders*. On which we find the following curious paraphrase: "Here the prophete spekes agaynes that grucches with ese of il men: and the travel and anguis of gude men. *I sal schrife til the Lard*; that is, I sal lufe the in al my hert, hally gederant it til thi luf: and gyfand na party tharof tyl errour, na to covatyse: ne til fleschly luf. A vile errour it is that some men says, that God dose unrightwisly in mani thinges in erthe: for tham thynk that tay sold noght be done. Als I hard say noght lang sythem, of a man of religyon, and of grete fame, that qwen he was in the see, in poynte to peryshe, he said tyl Gode: Lard thu dos unryghtwysly if thou sofyr us to perysch here. God myght haf answered and said, My rightwysnes reches to sofer a beter man than thou ert to perisse here: for I hope, had he ben a ryghtwyse man, he had noght sayd swa: for al ar unryghtwyse, that hopes that any unrightwysnes may be in Godes wylle. 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