“Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.”
The continuation that God has rebuked nations and destroyed the wicked extends the scope of God's victory from particular enemies to universal judgment. The parallel between rebuking nations and destroying the wicked suggests that God actively opposes organized opposition to divine rule. The blotting out of names suggests complete and permanent obliteration, making the wicked's defeat not merely temporary setback but eschatological elimination. This verse suggests that the psalmist's particular deliverance participates in the larger pattern of God's judgment against all wickedness.
Church Fathers on Psalms 9:5
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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