the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Psalms 9:16
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Yahweh has made Himself known;He has executed judgment.In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.
The Lord has made Himself known; He has executed judgment. In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.
God is knowen by the iudgement that he hath executed: the vngodly is trapped in ye worke of his owne handes, this ought to be considered alwayes. Selah.
Jehovah is known [by] the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
The Lord is known by the judgment He executes;The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.Meditation. [fn] Selah
Jehovah has been known, He has executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. A meditation, Selah.
The Lord showed that he judges fairly. The wicked were caught by what they did to hurt others. Higgayon Selah
Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
The Lord is knowen by the iudgement which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the worke of his owne hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Thus ye LORDE is knowne to execute true iudgment, whe the vngodly is trapped in the workes of his owne handes.
Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah
The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)
Yahweh has made himself known, he has executed judgment: The wicked stumbles in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
The Lord revealed himself; he accomplished justice; the wicked were ensnared by their own actions. (Higgaion. Selah)
You showed what you are like, and you made certain that justice is done, but evil people are trapped by their own evil deeds.
The nations have drowned in the pit they dug, caught their own feet in the net they hid.
The Lord is knowen by executing iudgement: the wicked is snared in the worke of his owne handes. Higgaion. Selah.
The LORD makes known the judgment which he executes; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
The LORD has made Himself known; He executes judgment; The wicked are trapped by the work of their own hands. Higgaion (meditation) Selah.
The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
The Lord is known for his justice. The wicked are trapped by their own deeds. Quiet Interlude
The Lord has made Himself known. He is fair in His Law. The sinful trap themselves by the work of their own hands.
The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause.
The LORD hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah
The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
The Lord has made himself known, he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah
To be known is Yahweh, by the sentence he hath executed, By the doing of his own hands, is he about to strike down the lawless one. Refunding music. Selah.
(9-17) The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.
Yahweh has made himself known; he has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his hands. Higgaion Selah
The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah
The LORD has made Himself known; He has executed judgment. A wicked one is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion Selah
The Lord has made himself known by his fair decisions; the wicked get trapped by what they do. Higgaion. Selah
The Lord has revealed himself by his righteous judgments, and the wicked are trapped by their own deeds.
The Lord has revealed Himself; He has executed justice, striking down the wicked by the work of their hands.
The Lord makynge domes schal be knowun; the synnere is takun in the werkis of hise hondis.
Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.
The LORD has made himself known, he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. [Higgaion. Selah]
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
known: Psalms 48:11, Psalms 58:10, Psalms 58:11, Psalms 83:17, Psalms 83:18, Exodus 7:5, Exodus 14:4, Exodus 14:10, Exodus 14:31, Deuteronomy 29:22-28, Joshua 2:10, Joshua 2:11, Judges 1:7, 1 Samuel 6:19, 1 Samuel 6:20, 1 Samuel 17:46, 2 Kings 19:19, 2 Kings 19:34, 2 Kings 19:35
wicked: Psalms 11:6, Psalms 140:9, Proverbs 6:2, Proverbs 12:13, Isaiah 8:15, Isaiah 28:13
Higgaion: that is, Meditation, Psalms 5:1, Psalms 19:14, Psalms 92:3, *marg.
Reciprocal: Exodus 7:17 - thou shalt Exodus 8:10 - there is none Exodus 9:27 - the Lord Exodus 34:7 - that will by no means clear the guilty Numbers 31:8 - Balaam Deuteronomy 32:4 - all his Joshua 3:10 - Hereby ye Joshua 8:16 - drawn away 2 Samuel 17:11 - in thine 2 Samuel 18:19 - avenged him 2 Samuel 20:12 - General 1 Kings 16:19 - in doing 1 Kings 21:19 - In the place 2 Chronicles 22:7 - was of God 2 Chronicles 33:13 - knew Esther 7:9 - Hang him thereon Job 5:13 - taketh Psalms 5:10 - let Psalms 7:15 - and is Psalms 10:2 - let Psalms 36:12 - There Psalms 50:6 - Selah Psalms 57:6 - a net Psalms 79:6 - not known Psalms 79:10 - let him Psalms 94:15 - But Psalms 94:23 - And he Psalms 119:43 - for I have Psalms 140:11 - evil Psalms 146:7 - executeth Proverbs 1:18 - General Proverbs 11:5 - direct Proverbs 11:27 - he that seeketh Proverbs 21:7 - robbery Ecclesiastes 10:8 - that Isaiah 5:16 - the Lord Isaiah 49:26 - and all Jeremiah 16:21 - I will this Ezekiel 7:27 - and they Ezekiel 11:10 - and ye Ezekiel 12:15 - General Ezekiel 15:7 - and ye shall Ezekiel 20:38 - and ye Ezekiel 22:16 - thou shalt know Ezekiel 23:49 - and ye shall know Ezekiel 25:11 - I will Ezekiel 25:17 - they shall Ezekiel 28:22 - I will Ezekiel 30:19 - General Ezekiel 30:25 - they shall know Ezekiel 32:15 - then Ezekiel 33:29 - shall Ezekiel 35:11 - and I Ezekiel 38:23 - and I Ezekiel 39:22 - know Daniel 4:17 - that the living Hosea 7:2 - their own Micah 6:9 - the man of wisdom shall see thy name Habakkuk 3:3 - Selah John 8:9 - went out Acts 5:37 - he also 1 Corinthians 3:19 - He
Cross-References
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The Lord is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth,.... The judgment which God will execute upon antichrist, and the antichristian powers, will be a means of making known his name, his glory, his perfections, in all the earth; as his wisdom, power, justice, and goodness; see Exodus 9:16. The destruction of antichrist will be the Lord's doing, and it will be a righteous one; it will be a just retaliation; as he has killed with the sword, multitudes of his followers shall be killed with the sword; as he has led captive, he shall be taken captive at the battle of Armageddon; as he has burnt, many of the martyrs of Jesus, he shall be cast into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. Some read these words as two sentences, "The Lord is known; he hath executed judgment" n: the latter of these refers not to the ministration of justice in the providential government of the world, or at the last day in the general judgment; but to the judgment of the great whore, or antichrist, at which time the Lord will be known in his Gospel in all the world; the earth will be tilled with the knowledge of him, and he, and he alone, will be exalted; his name will be great and glorious throughout the earth; all shall know him, from the least to the greatest; and their knowledge of him will be very clear and comprehensive;
the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands; not Goliath, as Kimchi thinks, who was slain by David with his own sword, though this was true of him in the letter and type; but the wicked one, the man of sin and son of perdition, antichrist, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all craftiness and wily stratagems, called the depths of Satan, Revelation 2:24; but his own sins shall take him, and he shall be holden with the cords of his iniquities, and be rewarded double for all his sins; what is before figuratively expressed is here literally declared; or, "he hath snared the wicked in or by the work of his hands" o, that is, God.
Higgaion. Selah; of the latter of these words, Revelation 2:24- :; the former signifies "meditation"; Jarchi paraphrases it נהגה, "let us meditate on this, selah"; Aben Ezra interprets it, "I will show forth this in truth"; the Chaldee paraphrase is, "the righteous shall rejoice for ever"; the note of Kimchi and Ben Melech is, "this salvation is to us meditation and praise"; upon the whole the sense seems to be this, that God's judgments upon antichrist, and the antichristian states, and the deliverance of his people from their yoke and tyranny, are things worthy of the meditation of the saints, and afford just matter of joy, praise, and thanksgiving.
n נודע יהוה משפט עשה "notus est Dominus; judicium fecit", Pagninus, Montanus, Gussetius; so Vatablus, Musculus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis, and Ainsworth. o בפעל כפיו נוקש רשע "illaqueavit iniquum per opus (vel in opere) manunm ipsius", Gussetius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth - By what; he does in his dealings with men, in dispensing rewards and punishments, bestowing blessings upon the righteous, and sending punishments upon the ungodly. That is, his character can be learned from his dealings with mankind; or, by studying the dispensation of his Providence, we may learn what he is. This is always a fair and proper way of estimating character, alike in regard to God and man; and it is proper, at all times, to study what God does, to learn what he is.
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands - The same sentiment which is expressed here occurs in Psalms 7:16. The idea is that the wicked are the cause of their own destruction; their own devices and designs are the means of their ruin, and they are made their own executioners. It is this to which the writer seems particularly to refer in the former part of the verse, when he says that “the Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth.” This great principle is brought out in his dealings with human beings, that the course which wicked men pursue is the cause of their own ruin. The laws of God in a great measure execute themselves, and men bring upon themselves their own destruction. It is the highest perfection of government to make ttle laws execute themselves.
Higgaion - Margin, “Meditation.” This word occurs elsewhere only in the following places, Psalms 19:14, rendered meditation; Psalms 92:3, rendered solemn sound; Lamentations 3:62. rendered device. Its proper meaning is, murmur; muttering; the utterance of a low sound, as the low sound of a harp; or the murmuring or muttering of one who talks to himself; and then meditation. Compare the notes at Psalms 2:1, on the word “imagine,” Margin, meditate, - the verb from which this is derived. Gesenius supposes that it is here a musical sound. So it is understood by the Septuagint - ᾠδὴ διαψάλματος ōdē diapsalmatos. It is not known why it is introduced here. There seems to be nothing in the sense which demands it, as there is no particular reason why the reader should pause and meditate here rather than in any other place in the psalm. It is doubtless a mere musical pause, though perhaps indicating the kind of pause in the music, as some special sound or interlude on the musical instrument that was employed.
Selah - Another musical term, see the notes at Psalms 3:2. This indicates a general pause; the word Higgaion denotes the particular kind of pause.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 9:16. The Lord is known by the judgment — It is not every casualty that can properly be called a judgment of God. Judgment is his strange work; but when he executes it, his mind is plainly to be seen. There are no natural causes to which such calamities can be legally attributed.
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. — There is nothing that a wicked man does that is not against his own interest. He is continually doing himself harm, and takes more pains to destroy his soul than the righteous man does to get his saved unto eternal life. This is a weighty truth; and the psalmist adds: Higgaion; Selah. Meditate on this; mark it well. See on Psalms 3:3. Some think that it is a direction to the musicians, something like our Presto, Largo, Vivace, Allegro, "Play briskly and boldly; beat away; and let sense and sound accompany each other."
