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even the memory of them has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/psalms/9.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />The enemy is finished, in endless ruins; the cities you uprooted are now forgotten.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/psalms/9.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/psalms/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/psalms/9.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/psalms/9.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />O enemy, destructions are finished forever! And you have destroyed cities; Even their memory has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/psalms/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />The enemy has come to an end <i>in</i> everlasting ruins, And You have uprooted the cities; The very memory of them has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/psalms/9.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins, And You have uprooted the cities; The very memory of them has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/psalms/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins, And Thou hast uprooted the cities; The very memory of them has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/psalms/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins, And You have uprooted the cities; The very memory of them has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/psalms/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />The enemy has been cut off <i>and</i> has vanished in everlasting ruins, You have uprooted their cities; The very memory of them has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/psalms/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The enemy has come to eternal ruin; you have uprooted the cities, and the very memory of them has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The enemy has come to eternal ruin; You have uprooted the cities, and the very memory of them has perished. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/psalms/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Our enemies are destroyed completely for all time. Their cities are torn down, and they will never be remembered again. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; and the cities which thou hast overthrown, their very memorial is perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/psalms/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />The enemy is finished-in ruins forever. You have uprooted their cities. Even the memory of them has faded.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/psalms/9.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Our enemies are finished forever; you have destroyed their cities, and they are completely forgotten. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/psalms/9.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />The enemy has perished, reduced to ruins forever. You uprooted their cities, the very memory of them vanished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/psalms/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/psalms/9.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />The enemy's cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/psalms/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin; and the very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial hath perished with them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/psalms/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />The enemy—[your] destructions have been completed forever, "" As for cities you have plucked up, "" Their memorial has perished with them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> O thou Enemy, Finished have been destructions for ever, As to cities thou hast plucked up, Perished hath their memorial with them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/psalms/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />O enemy! desolations were wholly finished, and thou didst tear down cities; their remembrance perished with them.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/psalms/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><V 9:7>The spears of the enemy have failed in the end, and their cities, you have destroyed. Their memory has perished with a loud noise.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/9.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The enemies have been ruined forever; you destroyed their cities; their memory has perished. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities you have rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/psalms/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />My enemies have been annihilated by the sword for ever; and thou hast destroyed the villages and their very memory hath perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/psalms/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />My enemies are finished by the sword; you have ripped out cities for eternity and you have destroyed their memorial.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/psalms/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />O thou enemy, the waste places are come to an end for ever; And the cities which thou didst uproot, Their very memorial is perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/psalms/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and thou hast destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/9-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nFaD2oDhKPc?start=706" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/psalms/9.htm">I Will Give Thanks to the LORD</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever. <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/341.htm" title="341: hā·’ō·w·yêḇ (Art:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- Hating, an adversary. Or owyeb; active participle of 'ayab; hating; an adversary.">The enemy</a> <a href="/hebrew/8552.htm" title="8552: tam·mū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- A primitive root; to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5331.htm" title="5331: lā·ne·ṣaḥ (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- Eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity. ">has come to eternal</a> <a href="/hebrew/2723.htm" title="2723: ḥo·rā·ḇō·wṯ (N-fp) -- Waste, desolation, ruin. Feminine of choreb; properly, drought, i.e. a desolation.">ruin,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5428.htm" title="5428: nā·ṯaš·tā (V-Qal-Perf-2ms) -- To pull or pluck up, root out. A primitive root; to tear away.">and You have uprooted</a> <a href="/hebrew/5892.htm" title="5892: wə·‘ā·rîm (Conj-w:: N-fp) -- Excitement. Or par; or ayar; from uwr a city in the widest sense.">their cities;</a> <a href="/hebrew/2143.htm" title="2143: ziḵ·rām (N-msc:: 3mp) -- Remembrance, memorial. Or zeker; from zakar; a memento, abstr. Recollection; by implication, commemoration.">the very memory</a> <a href="/hebrew/1992.htm" title="1992: hêm·māh (Pro-3mp) -- They. Or hemmah; masculine plural from halak; they.">of them</a> <a href="/hebrew/6.htm" title="6: ’ā·ḇaḏ (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To perish. A primitive root; properly, to wander away, i.e. Lose oneself; by implication to perish.">has vanished.</a> </span><span class="reftext">7</span>But the LORD abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/14-22.htm">Isaiah 14:22-23</a></span><br />“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD. / “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/26-19.htm">Ezekiel 26:19-21</a></span><br />For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you, / then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living. / I will make you an object of horror, and you will be no more. You will be sought, but will never be found,’ declares the Lord GOD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25-26</a></span><br />“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain. / No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nahum/1-14.htm">Nahum 1:14</a></span><br />The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/2-13.htm">Zephaniah 2:13-15</a></span><br />And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert. / Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar. / This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-21.htm">Revelation 18:21</a></span><br />Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/34-10.htm">Isaiah 34:10-12</a></span><br />It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it. / The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction. / No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/50-13.htm">Jeremiah 50:13</a></span><br />Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/obadiah/1-10.htm">Obadiah 1:10</a></span><br />Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/1-4.htm">Malachi 1:4</a></span><br />Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/19-20.htm">Revelation 19:20</a></span><br />But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19-22</a></span><br />And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. / She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there. / But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/49-17.htm">Jeremiah 49:17-18</a></span><br />“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds. / As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/14-8.htm">Revelation 14:8</a></span><br />Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/47-1.htm">Isaiah 47:1-3</a></span><br />“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. / Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. / Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.</p><p class="hdg">O thou.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/7-5.htm">Psalm 7:5</a></b></br> Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take <i>it</i>; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/8-2.htm">Psalm 8:2</a></b></br> Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/15-16.htm">Exodus 15:16</a></b></br> Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be <i>as</i> still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, <i>which</i> thou hast purchased.</p><p class="hdg">destructions</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/46-9.htm">Psalm 46:9</a></b></br> He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/14-13.htm">Exodus 14:13</a></b></br> And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/10-24.htm">Isaiah 10:24,25</a></b></br> Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt… </p><p class="hdg">thou hast</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/30-1.htm">1 Samuel 30:1</a></b></br> And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/31-7.htm">1 Samuel 31:7</a></b></br> And when the men of Israel that <i>were</i> on the other side of the valley, and <i>they</i> that <i>were</i> on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/10-6.htm">Isaiah 10:6,7,13,14</a></b></br> I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets… </p><p class="hdg">memorial</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/19-25.htm">2 Kings 19:25</a></b></br> Hast thou not heard long ago <i>how</i> I have done it, <i>and</i> of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities <i>into</i> ruinous heaps.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/14-22.htm">Isaiah 14:22,23</a></b></br> For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/51-62.htm">Jeremiah 51:62-64</a></b></br> Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/job/15-28.htm">Cities</a> <a href="/job/38-27.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/psalms/9-5.htm">Destroyed</a> <a href="/psalms/9-5.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/isaiah/21-15.htm">Destructions</a> <a href="/psalms/9-5.htm">End</a> <a href="/psalms/7-9.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/job/22-5.htm">Endless</a> <a href="/psalms/8-2.htm">Enemy</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-5.htm">Everlasting</a> <a href="/job/32-4.htm">Finished</a> <a href="/psalms/6-5.htm">Memorial</a> <a href="/psalms/6-5.htm">Memory</a> <a href="/job/3-25.htm">Overtaken</a> <a href="/job/19-6.htm">Overthrown</a> <a href="/psalms/9-3.htm">Perished</a> <a href="/numbers/25-13.htm">Perpetual</a> <a href="/psalms/8-3.htm">Places</a> <a href="/job/29-17.htm">Plucked</a> <a href="/psalms/6-5.htm">Remembrance</a> <a href="/job/31-29.htm">Ruin</a> <a href="/job/30-14.htm">Ruins</a> <a href="/job/15-28.htm">Towns</a> <a href="/job/31-12.htm">Uproot</a> <a href="/job/31-12.htm">Uprooted</a> <a href="/judges/6-21.htm">Vanished</a> <a href="/psalms/6-6.htm">Waste</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/69-35.htm">Cities</a> <a href="/psalms/25-16.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/psalms/11-3.htm">Destroyed</a> <a href="/psalms/18-4.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/psalms/35-17.htm">Destructions</a> <a href="/psalms/12-1.htm">End</a> <a href="/psalms/55-23.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/psalms/93-5.htm">Endless</a> <a href="/psalms/13-2.htm">Enemy</a> <a href="/psalms/24-7.htm">Everlasting</a> <a href="/psalms/90-9.htm">Finished</a> <a href="/psalms/20-3.htm">Memorial</a> <a href="/psalms/9-12.htm">Memory</a> <a href="/psalms/18-37.htm">Overtaken</a> <a href="/psalms/36-12.htm">Overthrown</a> <a href="/psalms/10-16.htm">Perished</a> <a href="/psalms/74-3.htm">Perpetual</a> <a href="/psalms/10-8.htm">Places</a> <a href="/psalms/80-12.htm">Plucked</a> <a href="/psalms/30-4.htm">Remembrance</a> <a href="/psalms/35-4.htm">Ruin</a> <a href="/psalms/73-18.htm">Ruins</a> <a href="/psalms/10-8.htm">Towns</a> <a href="/psalms/52-5.htm">Uproot</a> <a href="/psalms/52-5.htm">Uprooted</a> <a href="/psalms/12-1.htm">Vanished</a> <a href="/psalms/18-42.htm">Waste</a><div class="vheading2">Psalm 9</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/9-1.htm">David praises God for executing judgment</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/9-11.htm">He incites others to praise him</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/9-13.htm">He prays that he may have cause to praise him</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/psalms/9.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/psalms/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/psalms/9.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>The enemy has come to eternal ruin</b><br>This phrase speaks to the ultimate defeat and destruction of those who oppose God and His people. In biblical context, "the enemy" often refers to nations or individuals who stand against Israel, God's chosen people. Historically, this can be seen in the downfall of empires such as Babylon and Assyria, which once threatened Israel but were eventually destroyed. The concept of "eternal ruin" suggests a complete and irreversible judgment, aligning with the biblical theme of divine justice. This can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the final judgment described in Revelation, where all enemies of God will face eternal punishment.<p><b>and You have uprooted their cities</b><br>The imagery of uprooting suggests a thorough and decisive action by God, removing the foundations of the enemy's power and influence. In ancient times, cities were centers of strength, culture, and identity. The destruction of a city symbolized the end of a civilization's dominance. Archaeological evidence of cities like Jericho and Nineveh shows how once-thriving centers were reduced to ruins, fulfilling prophecies of their downfall. This act of uprooting can also be seen as a type of Christ's ultimate victory over sin and death, where He dismantles the strongholds of evil.<p><b>the very memory of them has vanished</b><br>This phrase emphasizes the totality of the enemy's obliteration, not only physically but also in terms of legacy and remembrance. In the ancient Near East, memory and name were crucial for a person's or nation's continued influence and honor. The erasure of memory signifies a complete removal from history and consciousness, akin to the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, whose destruction was so complete that their exact locations remain uncertain. This can be connected to the biblical promise that God will wipe away every tear and remove the former things, as seen in Revelation, symbolizing a new creation where past evils are forgotten.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_enemy.htm">The Enemy</a></b><br>Represents those who oppose God and His people. In the context of the Psalms, this often refers to nations or individuals who are adversaries of Israel and, by extension, adversaries of God's purposes.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/e/eternal_ruin.htm">Eternal Ruin</a></b><br>This phrase signifies the complete and irreversible destruction of the wicked. It emphasizes the finality of God's judgment against those who oppose Him.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/u/uprooted_cities.htm">Uprooted Cities</a></b><br>Symbolizes the total destruction of the enemy's strongholds and places of power. This imagery conveys the idea that God dismantles the very foundations of the wicked's influence.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/m/memory_vanished.htm">Memory Vanished</a></b><br>Indicates the complete obliteration of the enemy's legacy and influence. It suggests that their impact and presence are entirely erased from history.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/g/god_as_judge.htm">God as Judge</a></b><br>Implicit in this verse is the role of God as the righteous judge who enacts justice against the wicked and defends His people.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a></b><br>God is sovereign and just, and His judgments are final. Believers can trust that God will ultimately deal with all forms of wickedness and injustice.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_transience_of_evil.htm">The Transience of Evil</a></b><br>The apparent power and influence of the wicked are temporary. God's justice ensures that their legacy will not endure.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_security_of_the_righteous.htm">The Security of the Righteous</a></b><br>While the wicked face eternal ruin, the righteous have the assurance of God's protection and the promise of eternal life.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_legacy.htm">The Importance of Legacy</a></b><br>Consider the legacy you are building. Unlike the wicked, whose memory vanishes, strive to leave a legacy that honors God and blesses others.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_timing.htm">Trust in God's Timing</a></b><br>God's judgment may not always be immediate, but it is certain. Trust in His timing and remain faithful, knowing that He will act justly.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(6) <span class= "bld">O thou enemy . . .</span>--This vocative gives no intelligible meaning. Translate, <span class= "ital">As for the enemy, they are made an utter wreck and perpetual ruin.</span><p><span class= "bld">Destructions.</span>--Properly, <span class= "ital">desolations, ruins, </span>from a word meaning "to be dried up."<p><span class= "bld">Come to a perpetual end.</span>--Properly, <span class= "ital">are completed for ever.</span><p><span class= "bld">Thou hast destroyed.</span>--Some understand the relative: "the cities which thou hast destroyed."<p><span class= "bld">Their memorial.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">their very memory is perished; </span>literally, <span class= "ital">their memory, theirs. </span>(Comp. "He cannot flatter, he"--Shakespeare, <span class= "ital">King Lear</span>)<span class= "ital">. </span>The LXX. and Vulg. read, "with a sound," referring to the crash of falling cities. Some would substitute enemies for cities, but they lose the emphasis of the passage, which points to the utter evanishment from history of great cities as a consequence and sign of Divine judgment. Probably the poet thinks of Sodom and Gomorrha, whose overthrow left such a signal mark on the thought of Israel. We think of the mounds of earth which alone represent Nineveh and Babylon.<p>"'Mid far sands,<p>The palm-tree cinctured city stands,<p>Bright white beneath, as heaven, bright blue,<p>Leans over it, while the years pursue<p>Their course, unable to abate<p>Its paradisal laugh at fate.<p>One morn the Arab staggers blind . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 6.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end</span>. It is better to translate, with the Revised Version, <span class="accented">The enemy are come to an end</span>; <span class="accented">they are desolate for ever</span> - a continuance of the hyperbole already noticed in the preceding verse. And thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them; rather, <span class="accented">and as for the cities thou hast destroyed</span>, <span class="accented">their very memory has perished.</span> This could only be an anticipation. It was fulfilled in the complete disappearance from history of the names of Zoba, Beth-rehob, and Tob, after the victory described in <a href="/2_samuel/10-13.htm">2 Samuel 10:13, 14</a>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/psalms/9-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">The enemy</span><br /><span class="heb">הָֽאוֹיֵ֨ב ׀</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ō·w·yêḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_341.htm">Strong's 341: </a> </span><span class="str2">Hating, an adversary</span><br /><br /><span class="word">has come to eternal</span><br /><span class="heb">לָ֫נֶ֥צַח</span> <span class="translit">(lā·ne·ṣaḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5331.htm">Strong's 5331: </a> </span><span class="str2">Eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity</span><br /><br /><span class="word">ruin,</span><br /><span class="heb">חֳרָב֗וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(ḥo·rā·ḇō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2723.htm">Strong's 2723: </a> </span><span class="str2">Waste, desolation, ruin</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and You have uprooted</span><br /><span class="heb">נָתַ֑שְׁתָּ</span> <span class="translit">(nā·ṯaš·tā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5428.htm">Strong's 5428: </a> </span><span class="str2">To pull or pluck up, root out</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their cities;</span><br /><span class="heb">וְעָרִ֥ים</span> <span class="translit">(wə·‘ā·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5892.htm">Strong's 5892: </a> </span><span class="str2">Excitement</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the very memory</span><br /><span class="heb">זִכְרָ֣ם</span> <span class="translit">(ziḵ·rām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2143.htm">Strong's 2143: </a> </span><span class="str2">A memento, recollection, commemoration</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of them</span><br /><span class="heb">הֵֽמָּה׃</span> <span class="translit">(hêm·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1992.htm">Strong's 1992: </a> </span><span class="str2">They</span><br /><br /><span class="word">has vanished.</span><br /><span class="heb">אָבַ֖ד</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·ḇaḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6.htm">Strong's 6: </a> </span><span class="str2">To wander away, lose oneself, to perish</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalm 9:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalm 9:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalm 9:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalm 9:6 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalm 9:6 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalm 9:6 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalm 9:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalm 9:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalm 9:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalm 9:6 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/psalms/9-6.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 9:6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin (Psalm Ps Psa.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/psalms/9-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 9:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 9:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/psalms/9-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 9:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 9:7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>