“And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.”
The declaration that those who know God's name put their trust in Him, and God does not forsake those who seek Him establishes relational knowledge of God as foundation for trust. The verb know suggests experiential knowledge of God's character through encounter and covenant relationship rather than abstract intellectual awareness. The promise that God will not forsake the seekers establishes that trust is rewarded through divine faithfulness and continued presence. This verse suggests that the psalmist's thanksgiving emerges from personal experience of God's faithfulness in protection.
Church Fathers on Psalms 9:10
1. The inscription of this Psalm is, “To the end for the hidden things of the Son, a Psalm of David himself.” As to the hidden things of the Son there may be a question: but since he has not added whose, the very only-begotten Son of God should be understood. For where a Psalm has been inscribed of the son of David, “When,” he says, “he fled from the face of Absalom his son;” although his name even was mentioned, and therefore there could be no obscurity as to whom it was…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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