תהלים 9:5

Hebrew Modern Translation

גערת גוים אבדת רשע שמם מחית לעולם ועד׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
[9:6] גוים אבדת רשע שמם מחית לעולם ועד

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
[9:6] גָּעַ֣רְתָּ גֹ֭ויִם אִבַּ֣דְתָּ רָשָׁ֑ע שְׁמָ֥ם מָ֝חִ֗יתָ לְעוֹלָ֥ם וָעֶֽד ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
[9:6] גָּעַרְתָּ גוֹיִם אִבַּדְתָּ רָשָׁע שְׁמָם מָחִיתָ לְעוֹלָם וָעֶֽד ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rebuked: Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:8, Psalms 2:9, Psalms 78:55, Psalms 79:10, Psalms 149:7, 1 Samuel 17:45-51, 2 Samuel 5:6-16, 2 Samuel 8:1-15, 2 Samuel 10:6-9, 2 Samuel 21:15-22, 2 Samuel 22:44-46, Revelation 19:15

destroyed: Psalms 5:6, 1 Samuel 25:32, 1 Samuel 31:4, 2 Samuel 17:23, Malachi 4:3

put out: Deuteronomy 9:14, Proverbs 10:7, Proverbs 13:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:24 - their name Deuteronomy 25:6 - that his name 1 Samuel 17:10 - give me Psalms 7:9 - Oh Psalms 10:16 - heathen Psalms 94:10 - chastiseth Isaiah 17:13 - but Isaiah 48:19 - his name Ezekiel 21:25 - whose

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou hast rebuked the Heathen,.... The people of the Philistines, as the Targum and Kimchi explain it, though some Jewish writers a understand it of Amalek the chief of the Heathen nations; but it rather refers to Gospel times, and to the rebukes of the Heathen, by the preaching of the Gospel, for their idolatry and superstition; and especially to the latter day, and to the rebukes of the antichristian states, the Papists who are called Gentiles; which will be with flames of fire, and will issue in their utter extirpation, upon which a profound peace and prosperity will succeed in the Christian churches, according to Isaiah 2:4; which is a prophecy of those times;

thou hast destroyed the wicked; the wicked man; for it is in the singular number, "labben", as Aben Ezra observes, or who is meant by him; Goliath, according to the Targum and Kimchi; or Esau, as other Jewish writers b, that is, his posterity the Edomites; and each of these were figures of antichrist, the man of sin, the wicked one, whom Christ will slay with the breath of his lips, Isaiah 11:4;

thou hast put out their name for ever and ever; that is, the glory and reputation of their name, a good and honourable one, which they sought to transmit to the latest posterity; for though the names of wicked men may continue, as Pharaoh, Judas, and others; yet they continue with a scandal and reproach upon them that shall never be wiped off, their names rot and stink; see Proverbs 10:7; the whole of this denotes the utter ruin and shameful end of the enemies of Christ and his church, and which is matter of joy to the saints.

a Jarchi in loc. & Pesikta in ibid. in v. 1. b Ibid.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou hast rebuked the heathen - Not the pagan in general, or the nations at large, but those who are particularly referred to in this psalm - those who are described as the enemies of the writer and of God. On the word rendered “heathen” here - גוים gôyim - see the notes at Psalms 2:1. The word rebuke here does not mean, as it does usually with us, to chide with words, but it means that he had done this by deeds; that is, by overcoming or vanquishing them. The reference is, undoubtedly, to some of those nations with whom the writer had been at war, and who were the enemies of himself and of God, and to some signal act of the divine interposition by which they had been overcome, or in which the author of the psalm had gained a victory. DeWette understands this as referring to “barbarians, foreigners, pagan?” David, in the course of his life, was often in such circumstances as are here supposed, though to what particular event he refers it would not be possible now to decide.

Thou hast destroyed the wicked - The Hebrew here is in the singular number - רשׁע râshâ‛ - though it may be used collectively, and as synonymous with the word “heathen.” Compare Isaiah 14:5; Psalms 84:10; Psalms 125:3. The Aramaic Paraphrase renders this, “Thou hast destroyed the impious Goliath.” The reference is undoubtedly to the enemies meant by the word pagan, and the writer speaks of them not only as pagan or foreigners, but as characterized by wickedness, which was doubtless a correct description of their general character.

Thou hast put out their name forever and ever - As when a nation is conquered, and subdued; when it is made a province of the conquering nation, and loses its own government, and its distinct existence as a people, and its name is no more recorded among the kingdoms of the earth. This is such language as would denote entire subjugation, and it is probably to some such event that the psalmist refers. Nations have often by conquest thus lost their independence and their distinct existence, by becoming incorporated into others. To some such entire subjugation by conquest the psalmist undoubtedly here refers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 9:5. Thou hast rebuked the heathen — We know not what this particularly refers to, but it is most probably to the Canaanitish nations, which God destroyed from off the face of the earth; hence it is said, Thou hast put out their name for ever and ever, לעולם ועד leolam vaed, endlessly. Here עולם olam has its proper signification, without end. He who contends it means only a limited time, let him tell us where the Hivites, Perizzites, Jebusites, c., now dwell and when it is likely they are to be restored to Canaan.