Psalms 9:7

But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
LORD	וַֽ֭יהוָה va.Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · conjunction + proper noun, a title
endure	יֵשֵׁ֑ב ye.Shev	H3427	properly · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
ever	לְעוֹלָ֣ם le.'o.Lam	H5769	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
prepared	כּוֹנֵ֖ן ko.Nen	H3559	properly · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
throne	כִּסְאֽוֹ kis.'O	H3678	properly · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
judgment	לַמִּשְׁפָּ֣ט la.mish.Pat	H4941	properly · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 103:19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for…
Psalms 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalms 102:12 But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
Psalms 50:3-5 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Psalms 102:24-27 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
Hebrews 1:11-12 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 9:1-10

The title of this psalm gives a very uncertain sound concerning the occasion of penning it. It is upon Muth-labben, which some make to refer to the death of Goliath, others of Nabal, others of Absalom; but I incline to think it signifies only some tone, or some musical instrument, to which this psalm was intended to be sung; and that the enemies David is here triumphing in the defeat of are the Philistines, and the other neighbouring nations that opposed his settlement in the throne, whom he contested with and subdued in the beginning of his reign, Sa2 5:8. In these verses, I. David excites and engages himself to praise God for his mercies and the great things he had of late done for him and…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 9:7

God's eternal possession of a throne of justice is contrasted with the ruin of the wicked.

John Gill on Psalms 9:7

But the Lord shall endure for ever,.... When antichrist is entirely ruined, his cities destroyed, and the memorial of them perished, then "shall the Lord sit for ever" (g), as the words may be rendered; that is, as a Jewish writer (h) paraphrases them, in rest and quiet. The words may be expressive of the unchangeableness and eternity and power of God; the Chaldee paraphrase of them is, , "the Word of the Lord is for ever; his habitation is in the highest heavens". And they may very well be interpreted of Christ, the essential Word of God, who is the unchangeable, everlasting, and almighty God; and who sits King for ever, and must sit at God's right hand, in the highest heavens, until all hi…

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John Calvin on Psalms 9:6-8

Psalm 9:6-8 6. O thou enemy, desolations are come to an end for ever; and thou hast destroyed [or demolished [169] ] cities; their memory has perished with them. 7. And Jehovah sitteth for ever, he hath prepared his throne for judgment. 8. And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall judge the nations in uprightness. 6. O thou enemy, desolations are come to an end for ever. This sixth verse is explained in different ways. Some read it interrogatively, viewing the letter h, as a mark of interrogation, as if David, addressing his discourse to his enemies, asked whether they had completed their work of devastation, even as they had resolved to destroy every thing; for the verb tmm,…

The Church Fathers

"And the Lord abideth for ever" (ver. 7). "Wherefore" then "have the heathen raged, and the people imagined vain things against the Lord, and against His anointed:" for "the Lord abideth for ever. He hath prepared His seat in judgment, and He shall judge the world in equity." He prepared His seat when He was judged. For by that patience Man purchased heaven, and God in Man profited believers. And this is the Son's hidden judgment. But seeing He is also to come openly and in the sight of all to judge the quick and the dead, He hath prepared His seat in the hidden judgment: and He shall also openly "judge the world in equity:" that is, He shall distribute gifts proportioned to desert, setting the sheep on His right hand, and the goats on His left. "He shall judge the people with justice" (ver. 8). This is the same as was said above, "He shall judge the world in equity." Not as men judge who see not the heart, by whom very often worse men are acquitted than are condemned: but "in equity" and "with justice" shall the Lord judge, "conscience bearing witness, and thoughts accusing, or else excusing."
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 9

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Dictionary and topics

Muth-labben — Occurring only in the title of Psalm 9. Some interpret the words as meaning “on the death of Labben,” some unknown person. Others render the word, “on the death of the son;” i.e., of Absalom (2 Sam.…
Psalms, Book Of — The present Hebrew name of the book is Tehill’im, “Praises;” but in the actual superscriptions of the psalms the word Tehillah is applied only to one, (Psalms 145:1) ... which is indeed emphatically…
Judgment · THE GENERAL — THE GENERAL
Judgment, The · Predicted in the Old Testament — Predicted in the Old Testament
Throne · .Of God — .Of God

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 9:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 9:1-10

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 9:7

John Gill on Psalms 9:7

John Calvin on Psalms 9:6-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 9:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 9:1-10

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 9:7

John Gill on Psalms 9:7

John Calvin on Psalms 9:6-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 9:7-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 9:7-10

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 9:7