תהלים 9:16

Hebrew Modern Translation

נודע יהוה משפט עשה בפעל כפיו נוקש רשע הגיון סלה׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
[9:17] יהוה משפט עשה בפעל כפיו נוקש רשע הגיון סלה

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
[9:17] נֹ֤ודַ֨ע ׀ יְהוָה֮ מִשְׁפָּ֪ט עָ֫שָׂ֥ה בְּפֹ֣עַל כַּ֭פָּיו נוֹקֵ֣שׁ רָשָׁ֑ע הִגָּיֹ֥ון סֶֽלָה ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
[9:17] נוֹדַע ׀ יְהוָה מִשְׁפָּט עָשָׂה בְּפֹעַל כַּפָּיו נוֹקֵשׁ רָשָׁע הִגָּיוֹן סֶֽלָה ׃

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

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."