“O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.”
The reflection that the enemy's ruins are perpetual and cities destroyed, memory perished with them emphasizes permanence and totality of defeat. The emphasis on perpetual ruins suggests that the destruction serves as enduring testimony to God's judgment and the futility of opposing divine will. The blotting of memory suggests that the defeated are not merely killed but erased from history and remembrance, a form of obliteration beyond mere death. This verse celebrates how God's judgment leaves permanent marks on creation that testify to God's power and the cost of rebellion.
Church Fathers on Psalms 9:6
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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