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Psalms 9:5

Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

KJV

Quoniam fecisti judicium meum et causam meam ; sedisti super thronum, qui judicas justitiam.

Vulgate

ὅτι ἐποίησας τὴν κρίσιν μου καὶ τὴν δίκην μου, ἐκάθισας ἐπὶ θρόνου, ὁ κρίνων δικαιοσύνην.

LXX

Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

ASV

כִּֽי עָ֭שִׂיתָ מִשְׁפָּטִ֣/י וְ/דִינִ֑/י יָשַׁ֥בְתָּ לְ֝/כִסֵּ֗א שׁוֹפֵ֥ט צֶֽדֶק

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

דִּ֣ין
dyn
noun · 21×
וֹ
v
noun · 134×
י
y
noun · 422×
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י
yshby
verb · 1088×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
נוּ
nv
verb · 199×
צֶ֑דֶק
tsdq
noun · 116×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. Beloved, we need great diligence in all things, for we shall render account of and undergo a strict enquiry both of words and works. Our interests stop not with what now is, but a certain other condition of life shall receive us after this, and we shall be brought before a fearful tribunal. For we must appear before the Judgment-seat of Christ, that every one may receive the…
1. There is nothing worse, nothing more shameful, than gluttony; it makes the mind gross, and the soul carnal; it blinds, and permits not to see clearly. Observe, for instance, how this is the case with the Jews; for because they were intent upon gluttony, entirely occupied with worldly things, and without any spiritual thoughts, though Christ leads them on by ten thousand sayi…

Cross-references

  • 2Sam 17:23 — And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and
  • 2Sam 22:44 — Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
  • Deut 7:24 — And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
  • Deut 9:14 — Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
  • Deut 9:14 — Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
  • Deut 25:6 — And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
  • Exod 32:33 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
  • Isa 17:13 — The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling th
  • Mal 4:3 — And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Prov 10:7 — The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
  • Prov 10:7 — The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
  • Prov 13:9 — The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
  • Ps 78:55 — He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
  • Ps 79:10 — Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
  • Ps 145:20 — The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
  • Ps 149:7 — To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
  • Rev 19:15 — And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God