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Psalms 9:16 — King James Version← Study notes

The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.


Psalms 9:16Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 9:169 words
HebrewMeaning
טָבְע֣וּṭābəʿw
they have sunkverbH2883
fasten · settle · sink
ג֭וֹיִםgwōyim
nationsnounH1471
heathen · nation · people
בְּ/שַׁ֣חַתbəšaḥat
in the pitpronH7845
destruction · ditch · grave · pit
עָשׂ֑וּʿāśw
which they madeverbH6213
advance · appoint · apt · be at ···
בְּ/רֶֽשֶׁתbərešet
in the netpronH7568
ז֥וּzw
whichparticleH2098
this · wherein · which · whom
טָ֝מָ֗נוּṭāmānw
they had hiddenverbH2934
lay privily · in secret
נִלְכְּדָ֥הniləkədāh
it has been caughtverbH3920
at all · be frozen · be holden · stick together ···
רַגְלָֽ/םragəlām
foot theirnounH7272
be able to endure · according as · after · coming ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 9 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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