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title: "Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "James Anderson"
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section: 36 of 159
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cite: "John Calvin, tr. James Anderson, Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5, section 36. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/36/"
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# Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5

*John Calvin, tr. James Anderson*

Calvin on the Psalms, volume 5 of 5.

## 36. Psalm 9

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[¶0] To the chief Musician upon Hagittith. Almuth Laben. A Psalm of David

[¶1] 1 I will praise Jehovah with my whole heart; will recount all thy marvelous works.

[¶2] 2 I will rejoice and exult in thee; I will celebrate in Psalms thy name, O thou Most high!

[¶3] 3 When turned are my enemies backward, They fall and are put to flight at thy presence.

[¶4] 4 For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause; Thou hast sat upon the throne a righteous judge.

[¶5] 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen; Thou hast destroyed the ungodly; Their name thou hast blotted out for ever and ever.

[¶6] 6 O thou enemy! come to an end are desolations for ever; And cities thou hast destroyed; Perished has their memory with them.

[¶7] 7 And Jehovah for ever sitteth: His throne for judgment he hath prepared.

[¶8] 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness; He shall judge the peoples in rectitude.

[¶9] 9 And Jehovah will be a place of defense to the poor, And a protection in seasonable times in trouble.

[¶10] 10 And trust in thee shall those who know thy name: For thou forsakest not those who seek thee, O Jehovah!

[¶11] 11 Sing psalms to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion, Proclaim among the peoples his doings;

[¶12] 12 For in requiring blood, it he hath remembered: He hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

[¶13] 13 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah! See my affliction from those who persecute me, O thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;

[¶14] 14 That I may recount all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion; That I may exult in thy salvation.

[¶15] 15 Sunk are the heathen into the pit which they have made; In the net which they have hid taken are their own feet.

[¶16] 16 Known is Jehovah by executing judgment: In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.

[¶17] 17 Turned shall be the wicked into hell: All the nations that forget God.

[¶18] 18 For not for ever shall be forgotten the poor; The hope of the humble shall not perish for ever.

[¶19] 19 Arise, O Jehovah! let not man prevail: Let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

[¶20] 20 Put, O Jehovah! fear in them, That the heathen may know that mortal men they are. Selah.