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Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents
9:7-10 The Lord's Just Rule Is His People's Security. The singer celebrates the security of God's righteous rule. To speak of God's throne (v. 7) is to remember his awesome might; to speak of justice, righteousness, and uprightness (vv. 7-8) is to remember the good and holy ends for which God wields his might, namely, to protect those who know his name (v. 10) and to achieve his purpose of bringing light to the benighted world.
9:7 The terms sits and throne continue the idea of v. 4, as does the concern with justice and righteousness (v. 8).
9:8 That Israel's God judges the world and all its peoples would be a bold claim if he was not the same God who made heaven and earth and all that is in them. In this particular case the judging is punitive, but this need not be true in every case and at all times (cf. Isa. 2:4).
9:9 God's judgment involves vindicating the oppressed, the people of Israel seen as weak and needy. This psalm grew out of an occasion in which the Gentile rulers sought to oppress them.
9:10 To know God's name, to put trust in him, and to seek him are all ideals of OT piety, of which the people of Israel often fell short. Here the people are viewed in terms of their ideal.
