Psalms 9 and Psalms 10 are linked together by an irregular Acrostic (see notes on pp. 721, 722, and App-63), beginning at Psalms 9:1 and ending with Psalms 10:18. Seven letters are omitted. The Acrostic is irregular, corresponding with the "times of trouble". The notes will show how one subject perv... [ Continue Reading ]
MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _Elyon._... [ Continue Reading ]
SATEST. hast sat. RIGHT. righteously.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEATHEN. nations. THE WICKED. a lawless one: i.e. the Antichrist. Compare Psalms 10:3; Psalms 10:13; Psalms 10:14; Psalms 10:15. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. PUT OUT. blotted out. FOR EVER, &C. Compare Psalms 10:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU ENEMY. Same as the lawless one of Psalms 9:5. DESTRUCTIONS ARE COME. complete is the destruction. A PERPETUAL END. for evermore. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "swords are abandoned".... [ Continue Reading ]
ENDURE. sit as king.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE, &C. Quoted in Acts 17:31. THE WORLD. the habitable world. Hebrew. _tebel._ First occurrence in Psalms; never found with the Art. PEOPLE. peoples.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE OPPRESSED. the crushed one. Compare Psalms 10:18. TIMES OF TROUBLE. the great time of trouble: i.e. the tribulation of Matthew 24; Jeremiah 30, &c. Compare Psalms 10:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY NAME. See note on Psalms 5:11. PUT THEIR TRUST. confide. Hebrew. _batah._ See App-69.... [ Continue Reading ]
ZION. See App-68.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAKETH INQUISITION FOR. inquireth concerning. THEM: i.e. those named in Psalms 9:10. FORGETTETH NOT. Compare Psalms 9:18 and Psalms 10:11; Psalms 10:12. CRY. outcry. HUMBLE. oppressed. Compare Psalms 9:18 with Psalms 10:12; Psalms 10:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVE MERCY. Be gracious, or favourable to.... [ Continue Reading ]
PRAISE. So some codices, with four early printed editions (one in margin). Other codices read "praises". I WILL. that. may.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIGGAION. soliloquy, or meditation. See App-66. SELAH. Connecting the wicked one (singular) of Psalms 9:16 with the wicked ones (plural) of Psalms 9:17. See App-66.... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKED. wicked ones (plural) Hebrew. _rasha'_. App-44. TURNED. returned. Compare Job 21:26; Job 34:15.Psalms 104:29; Ecclesiastes 3:20; Ecclesiastes 12:7. HELL. the grave. Hebrew Sheol. App-35.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE NEEDY. a needy one. POOR. oppressed. Compare Psalms 9:12. NOT. Ellipsis of second negative. See note on Genesis 2:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. IN THY SIGHT. before Thee: i.e. at Thy coming.... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT THEM IN FEAR. Appoint them some terror. NATIONS. As in Psa 9:59... [ Continue Reading ]