Psalm 9 ~ he Lord has made Himself known; He has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.

Psalm 9

A Psalm of David.

I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
2 I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

3 When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before your presence.
4 For you have maintained my just cause;
you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

5 You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.

7 But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
8 and he judges the world with righteousness;
he judges the peoples with uprightness.

9 The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
10 And those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

11 Sing praises to the Lord, who sits enthroned in Zion!
Tell among the peoples his deeds!
12 For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

13 Be gracious to me, O Lord!
See my affliction from those who hate me,
O you who lift me up from the gates of death,
14 that I may recount all your praises,
that in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may rejoice in your salvation.

15 The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;
in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah

17 The wicked shall return to Sheol,
all the nations that forget God.

18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

19 Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail;
let the nations be judged before you!
20 Put them in fear, O Lord!
Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah




The Word is important because we cannot know Father GOD without His Word.

Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

2 Timothy 2:13
If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself.

James 4:5
Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?


Many times when we look to Scripture, we are in difficulty in life. Sometimes we are awake in the middle of the night with things disturbing our peace. We want our lives to change. In HIS path, in His Good Will.

David sounds so sure in Psalm Nine. David is on a journey. We are seeing with David, in faith - He is interested. Events unfold in HIS plan, path, and His Will. David is about to tell us part of our determination and steps to see our lives in faith.

We begin at why we open the Scriptures....

1 Peter 4:12
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you

Acts 14:22
Strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God



Do the Scriptures journey, giving us our lives as a road to walk along with Jesus? Will the concept hold up?

Deuteronomy 1:40
But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.

Deuteronomy 2:24
‘Rise up, set out on your journey and go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and contend with him in battle.'

Judges 18:6
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the Lord.”

1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

1 Kings 19:7
And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.”


We see God does know the Journey is gentle, encouraging, swift, fierce overwhelming and He understands.




And Jesus, did He journey? Did Father God see fit to record a journey?

Luke 2:44
But supposing him to be in the group they went a day's journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances




God says our prayer life is a journey.

Luke 11:5-10

5 And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, 6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? 8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. 9 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.



David is giving us basic steps to Journeying with the Lord. He leans upon the Lord. He trusts God to be his Father God. Whatever situation David comes upon on the run, living in caves, meeting kings, taking work, becoming almost king and being set aside for a concubine's son of Saul's. David is walking the adventure, doing as Paul said, "Seeing how it will go with me."

I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart

I will recount (the Lord has not brought me this far to drop me on my head)

I will be glad and exult in You

I will sing praise

The Lord sits enthroned forever

He judges the world with righteousness




Acts 17:11
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Acts 17:28
For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’


John 6:68
Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."

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