시편 Chapter 9

Translation: ESV

1

I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

Key Message

Salvation experienced personally by an individual becomes a mission to be wholeheartedly thanked for and proclaimed to the whole world.

▸Psalms 9-10 were likely originally one acrostic psalm, and Psalm 9 begins with personal thanksgiving and expands into corporate praise.

Psalms 9-10 were likely originally one acrostic psalm, and Psalm 9 begins with personal thanksgiving and expands into corporate praise. 'With my whole heart' (bekhol libbi) means thanksgiving with the whole person, not half-hearted devotion. 'Wonderful deeds' (niple'otekha) refers to God's saving acts in history such as the Exodus, and 'recounting' them carries the meaning of testimony and mission.

2

I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Key Message

True praise flows from joy and gladness rather than duty, and this joy comes from knowing God's greatness.

▸Following thanksgiving (v.

9

The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

Key Message

God is the special refuge for those crushed and oppressed in the world, and he acts with justice on their behalf.

▸'The oppressed' (dakkah) means those crushed and downtrodden, and that God is their 'stronghold' (misgav) — a high fortress, a refuge — declares God's special concern for the socially vulnerable.

10

And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Key Message

Those who truly know God come to trust him, and the promise that God does not forsake those who seek him is the foundation of faith.

▸'To know your name' is not mere intellectual knowledge but experiential knowing — actually experiencing God's character and acts.

16

The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah

Key Message

The evil the wicked devises ultimately returns to them — God's moral order always operates.

▸That the wicked are 'snared in the work of their own hands' is a declaration of poetic justice.

18

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

Key Message

The poor and needy who may be forgotten by the world are never forgotten before God, and their hope lives forever in God.

▸This is the declaration that the poor and needy who may be forgotten in the world are 'not always forgotten' before God.