“When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.”
The affirmation that God remembers and does not forget the cry of the afflicted and that He requires an accounting from those who shed innocent blood establishes God's attentiveness to victims and His judgment of oppressors. The memory language suggests that God actively attends to suffering and does not permit it to pass unnoticed, making divine remembrance itself a form of vindication. The requirement of accounting suggests that those who perpetrate violence against the innocent face inevitable judgment. This verse affirms that God's justice extends not merely to general wickedness but specifically to crimes against innocents.
Church Fathers on Psalms 9:12
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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