Daily Devotion of Psalm 9

Daily Nugget:
All, especially God’s own, should praise the Lord for His goodness. This ancient Hebrew song did just that; it bragged on God.

David made it clear to others:

• What marvelous things God had done in his life (vs. 1).
• How God protected the King (vss. 3-8) and how the unsaved should fear the mighty power and righteous judging of their Creator.
• The Lord is a safe place and protection for all (vss. 8-10, 13).
• God does not forget the pleas of those in desperate need for protection (vs. 12, 18).
• That the ungodly will reap the consequences from the sin they sow (vs. 13, 15-17, 19-20).

Today’s Christians have a similar responsibility to tell others about how God works in personal lives, and how he watches over His own. If we do not tell them, who will?

Because of so many Christian’s silence on praising God for what He is doing the world knows little of how God is working in lives today. Perhaps that is why so many cry there “is no God” because they have not heard anything that He has done. He has not been praised.

Be a David and brag on God. He deserves our praise and recognition for what He has done and is doing.

Today’s Thought:
He who counts the stars and calls them by their names is in no danger of forgetting his own children. — Charles Spurgeon

Words to Understand:
Higgaion: a musical notation indicating to be solemn
Inquisition: to ask
Muthlabben: “To die for the son,” quite possibly a title from a known song.
Perpentual: never ending
Rebuked: corrected
Satest: sit down to make a judgment
Selah: stop and meditate on these things, “think about it,” a musical rest

Today’s Reading:
Psalm 9
1 To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David. I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
11 ¶ Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.