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Psalms 9:4 — King James Version← Study notes

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.


Psalms 9:4Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 9:46 words
HebrewMeaning
בְּ/שׁוּבbəšwb
when turnpronH7725
build · circumcise · dig · do anything ···
אוֹיְבַ֥/יʾwōyəbay
enemies myverbH341
foe
אָח֑וֹרʾāḥwōr
backwardsnounH268
back (part · -side · -ward) · hereafter ···
יִכָּשְׁל֥וּyikāšəlw
they stumbleverbH3782
cast down · be decayed · fail · (cause ···
וְ֝/יֹאבְד֗וּwəyōʾbədw
and they may perishconjH6
destroy · not escape · fail · lose ···
מִ/פָּנֶֽי/ךָmipāneykā
from before youpronH6440
accept · against · anger · as ···
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 9:4

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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