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Nazarene Commentary 2000©

21^st Century Paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures© –
21^st Century Version of the Christian Scriptures© [NCMM]

PSALMS (1-24, 26)

PSALM 9 57:
YEHOWAH IS KNOWN BY HIS JUSTICE

57	PSALM 9: Psalm 9 and 10 are often linked together as this is the first acrostic, or alphabetic hymn following the Hebrew alphabet.

[A hymn of David]

Aleph 58

58	Aleph: The source of the Greek, Latin, and English “a.”

PS9:1 I will praise Yehowah with all my heart. I will tell again and again all Your wondrous activities. PS9:2 I will rejoice and exult in You. I will praise Your Name in song, O Most High.

Beth

PS9:3 When my enemies retreat they will stumble and perish from Your presence. PS9:4 For You have brought about my interest 59 and cause. You are enthroned and render justice.

59	Interest: Or, right, the justice of.

Gimel

PS9:5 You have rebuked the non-Jews. 60 You have destroyed the lawless. You have wiped out their name for ageless times and beyond. 61

60	Non-Jews: Or, nations, Gentiles. [Hebrew is GOY and the Greek ETHNOS]

61	For ageless times and beyond: Or, for ever and ever. The Hebrew is `OLAM [Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance #5769, concealed, vanishing point, time out of mind] ‘AD [Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance #5703, terminus, duration, advance, perpetuity].

PS9:6 O enemy, your desolations are complete throughout the ages. 62 You have uprooted even cities. Any memory of them has perished.

62	Throughout the ages: Or, KJV: perpetual end. The Hebrew here is NETSACH [Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance #5331, a goal, object in the distance, continually to the most distant point if view].

He

PS9:7 However, Yehowah will remain enthroned throughout ageless times. 63 Prepared for judgment is His throne.

63	Ageless times: Or, forever. Hebrew `OLAM.

PS9:8 And He will judge humanity in justice. 64 He will minister impartial judgment to the peoples.

64	He will judge humanity in justice: Compare Acts 17:31.

Waw

PS9:9 And so Yehowah will be a refuge to the oppressed, a shelter during times of poverty. 65

65	Poverty: Or, trouble, oppression, emergency, distress, desperate hours, destitution, time of need.

PS9:10 And so let them who know Your Name trust in You, that you, O Yehowah, have never deserted those who search for You.

Zayin

PS9:11 Sing praise to Yehowah, the One enthroned on Zion. Tell among the peoples his activities. PS9:12 For when He inquires about bloodguilt 66 He will remember them. He does not forget the outcry of the oppressed.

66	Inquires about bloodguilt: Or, Avenger of blood.

Chehth

PS9:13 Show me favor, O Yehowah. Look upon my humiliation due to those hating me. Exalt me high above the gates of death. PS9:14 So that I retell all Your praises in the city gates of Zion’s daughters, exulting in Your salvation.

Tehth

PS9:15 The non-Jews have sunk in the pit they made, in their own concealed net their own foot is caught. PS9:16 Yehowah is known by His execution of His judicial sentences, by the execution of His own hands is He is about to strike down the lawless. [Meditate. Selah]

Yohdh

PS9:17 The lawless shall return to Sheol, 67 even all the non-Jews who forget God.

67

Return to Sheol: The Hebrew for “return” is SHUWB [Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance #7725] but the word need not necessarily mean “return” though many versions render it so. [ASV, RHM, MOF, KNX, HAR]. Others like NJB use “turn away to” as does LXX, “driven away into.” If the word be limited to “return” then it infers the habitually lawless come out of Sheol, receive their judgment, and then return to a state of death. [Revelation 20:12-14]

PS9:18 For the poor will not always be forgotten, nor will the hope of the meek ever perish.

Kapth

PS9:19 Arise, O Yehowah. Do not let frail humans be more powerful. Let the non-Jews be judged in Your presence. 68

68	In Your presence: Or, in thy sight, before you face. The LXX renders the Hebrew into the Greek ENOPION SOU [in your sight].

PS9:20 Frighten them, O Yehowah, that the non-Jews may understand they are but frail humans. [Selah]