wicked = wicked ones (plural) Hebrew. rasha' . App-44 . turned = returned. Compare Job 21:26 ; Job 34:15 .Psalms 104:29 . Ecclesiastes 3:20 ; Ecclesiastes 12:7 . hell = the grave. Hebrew Sheol. App-35 . read more
"The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol,Even all the nations that forget God.For the needy shall not always be forgotten.Nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.""Wicked be turned back unto Sheol." Kidner pointed out the true meaning here as, "The wicked shall return to Sheol, not merely depart there. Death is their native element";[19] and that surely corresponds with a statement of the Apostle Paul that, "She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth." (1 Timothy 5:6)."The... read more
Psalms 9:17. Be turned into hell— The word rendered hell in this verse, does not mean absolutely the state of the damned, but only the שׁאול sheol, or state of departed souls; the grave, or place of the dead. This we may learn in the place before us, from the following verse; for the wicked were to be turned into the grave for the deliverance of the poor. In this sense, the word is to be understood in the Apostles' Creed, and throughout the Psalms. read more
17. shall be turned—or, "shall turn," retreating under God's vengeance, and driven by Him to the extreme of destruction, even hell itself. Those who forget God are classed with the depraved and openly profane. read more
Psalms 9The Septuagint translators combined Psalms 9, 10 into one psalm, even though they are separate in the Hebrew text. Consequently, from this psalm through Psalms 147, the numbering of the psalms in the Roman Catholic versions of the Bible differs from the numbering in the Protestant versions. The Roman Catholic versions follow the Septuagint (Greek) and Vulgate (Latin) versions, whereas the Protestant versions follow the Hebrew Bible. Twice the Septuagint translators combined or... read more
2. Petition for present deliverance 9:13-20Since God had proved faithful to uphold the afflicted righteous in the past, David called on Him to deliver him from his present evil enemies. read more
The psalmist contrasted the ends of the wicked and the oppressed needy. He set those who forget God opposite those who remember Him. In Old Testament thinking, remembering God is a term that describes continuing to have faith in God. Forgetting God pictures the opposite, namely, turning away from God. The Lord will not forget those who remember Him (trust in Him), but those who forget Him have no hope of escaping death when they need deliverance from it. read more
Psalms 9, 10 are combined in LXX, and there is certainly a real, though obscure, relationship between them. The two together form one ’acrostic,’ the vv. beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, though in both Pss. there is a gap in the arrangement. The subject matter of the two Pss., however, does not suggest that we have in tbem the two halves of what was originally a single Ps. Psalms 9 is distinctly national and Psalms 10 as distinctly personal, and though both may be... read more
(17) The wicked.—This is a most unfortunate rendering. The true translation is, the wicked shall return, as in LXX. and Vulg. (not “be turned”) to the grave, i.e., to dust, according to the doom in Genesis 3:19, or to the unseen world, as in Job 30:23; Psalms 90:1-3; or the verbs may be imperative, as in LXX. and Vulg., let them return. The verse is closely connected with the previous one. The wicked are bringing about their own destruction, and so witnessing to the righteous judgment of... read more
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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 9:1-20
Psalms 9-10 God fights for the oppressedIn Psalms 9:0 and 10 we meet another kind of Hebrew verse, the acrostic. (Other acrostics are Psalms 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119 and 145.) In an acrostic the first word of each verse (or stanza) begins with a different letter of the 22-letter Hebrew alphabet, moving in order, so to speak, ‘from A to Z’. The acrostic in this case moves unbroken through Psalms 9:0 and 10, indicating that originally they probably formed one psalm. The absence of a heading to... read more