{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa009.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa009.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nHeartfelt gratitude will find utterance.\nWhen . . . are turned back--It is the result of God's power alone. He, as a righteous Judge (Psa 7:11), vindicates His people. He rebukes by acts as well as words (Psa 6:1; Psa 18:15), and so effectually as to destroy the names of nations as well as persons.\nLiterally, \"As to the enemy finished are his ruins for ever. Thou [God] hast destroyed,\" &c. (Sa1 15:3, Sa1 15:7; Sa1 27:8-9). The wicked are utterly undone. Their ruins shall never be repaired.\nGod's eternal possession of a throne of justice is contrasted with the ruin of the wicked.\nThe oppressed, and all who know Him (Psa 5:3; Psa 7:1), find Him a sure refuge.\n(Compare Psa 2:6; Psa 3:4).\nfor blood--that is, murders (Psa 5:6), including all the oppressions of His people.\nmaketh inquisition--(compare Gen 9:5). He will avenge their cause.\ngates--or, \"regions.\"\nof death--Gates being the entrance is put for the bounds.\ngates . . . Zion--The enclosure of the city (compare Psa 48:12; Isa 23:12), or, church, as denoted by this phrase contrasted with that of death, carries out the idea of exaltation as well as deliverance. Signal favors should lead us to render signal and public thanks.\nThe 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.\nHiggaion--means \"meditation,\" and, combined with Selah, seems to denote a pause of unusual solemnity and emphasis (compare Psa 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.\nshall be turned--or, \"shall turn,\" retreating under God's vengeance, and driven by Him to the extreme of destruction, even hell itself. Those who forget God are classed with the depraved and openly profane.\n(Compare Psa 13:1-6).\nthe needy--literally, \"poor,\" as deprived of anything; hence miserable.\nexpectation of the poor--or, \"meek,\" \"humble,\" made so by affliction.\nArise--(compare Psa 4:7).\nlet not man-- (Psa 8:4).\nlet . . . be judged--and of course condemned.\nBy their effectual subjection, make them to realize their frail nature (Psa 8:4), and deter them from all conceit and future rebellion.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 9","type":"page"}