“But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.”
The affirmation that God reigns forever and has established throne for judgment restores focus to God's permanence and cosmic rule in contrast to the ephemerality of human opposition. The emphasis on forever suggests that God's dominion transcends temporal limitations that constrain human authority. The mention of established throne suggests that God's judicial authority constitutes permanent feature of cosmic order rather than intermittent intervention. This verse frames human judgment against particular enemies within God's eternal and universal judgment.
Church Fathers on Psalms 9:7
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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