Psalms 9:16

Psalms 9:16

14 That I may tell of all Your praise
In the gates of¹ the daughter of Zion.
I will ^arejoice in Your salvation.

15 ^aThe¹ nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.

16 The Lord is ^aknown by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. ^bMeditation.¹ Selah

17 The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the¹ nations ^athat forget God.

18 ^aFor the needy shall not always be forgotten;
^bThe expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

19 Arise, O Lord,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the¹ nations be judged in Your sight.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Higgaion—means "meditation," and, combined with Selah, seems to denote a pause of unusual solemnity and emphasis (compare Psalms 3:2). Though Selah occurs seventy-three times, this is the only case in which Higgaion is found. In the view which is given here of the retribution on the wicked as an instance of God's wise and holy ordering, we may well pause in adoring wonder and faith.

Psalms 9:15-16

The undesigned results of the devices of the wicked prove them to be of God's overruling or ordering, especially when those results are destructive to the wicked themselves.

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Psalms 9:16:**

Job 35:14
Psalms 3:2
Psalms 10:16-18
Psalms 57:6
Psalms 92:3
Proverbs 1:17-19
Proverbs 11:6
Jeremiah 51:9
Ezekiel 3:20
Ezekiel 11:10
Ezekiel 25:17
Daniel 4:17
Hosea 7:2

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