“The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.”
The reflection that the Lord makes Himself known and executes judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands establishes the connection between God's self-revelation and divine judgment. The mention of making Himself known suggests that God's character becomes evident through how God judges the wicked, making judgment a form of divine self-disclosure. The snaring of the wicked through their own deeds reinforces the pattern of retributive justice emerging from the evildoers' actions. This verse completes the movement from particular deliverance to universal principle, suggesting that God's judgment operates according to consistent cosmic principle.
Church Fathers on Psalms 9:16
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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