Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 9:7
But the Lord shall endure for ever - Yahweh is eternal - always the same. Though these cities have become desolate, and the enemy has been permitted to triumph, and nations and people have passed away, yet God is ever the same, unaffected by these changes and desolations, and in due time he will always interfere and vindicate his own character, and defend the oppressed and the wronged.He hath prepared his throne for judgment - See Psalms 9:4. He sits as a just judge among the nations, and he... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 9:8
And he shall judge the world . The "he" is emphatic—he himself, and no other. From his throne of judgment he shall judge, not Israel's enemies only, whom he has just judged ( Psalms 9:3-6 ), but the whole world. In righteousness; i.e. by a strict law of justice, rewarding to all men "after their deserving." He shall minister judgment to the people (rather, the peoples ; i.e. all the people of all the earth) in uprightness; literally, in uprightnesses —a plural of perfection. read more