God’s Righteous Judgement

Psalms 9:1-10
Prayer and Thanksgiving for the LORD's Righteous Judgments
To the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Death of the Son." A Psalm of David.

1 I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart;
I will tell of all Your marvelous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in You;
I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

3 When my enemies turn back,
They shall fall and perish at Your presence.
4 For You have maintained my right and my cause;
You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.

5 You have rebuked the nations,
You have destroyed the wicked;
You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

6 O enemy, destructions are finished forever!
And you have destroyed cities;
Even their memory has perished.

7 But the LORD shall endure forever;
He has prepared His throne for judgment.
8 He shall judge the world in righteousness,
And He shall administer judgment for the peoples in uprightness.

9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of trouble.
10 And those who know Your name will put their trust in You;
For You, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.

David knew of the righteous judgment of the LORD to come upon all flesh, either in this life or afterwards forever in finality.  He praised God with all he had, and went further to tell that to all around him and not just as private conversation with God alone.  He knew the righteous judgments of God had to be made known that others would turn to Him and praise Him as well.  David sang these songs, these psalms, to that end that others would look to Him for deliverance, seek righteousness, and give God the glory and honor and praise due to His name.  For David knew that his enemies would perish in His presence, falling as they pursued the LORD’s anointed.  God maintained the right cause of obedience and honor to Himself by the king’s lifestyle and direction towards Him, for the throne of righteous judgment on which God sat was where He settled matters for David and for all.  He had hope in God’s just and merciful dealings with him as well as with his enemies.  The LORD destroys those wickedly opposed to Him and His anointed, both David (Psalm 18:50, 132:17) and the Christ of God which he foreshadowed as a type of Christ to come.  The names of the wicked who oppose God’s anointed will not have their names in the Lamb’s book, but be wiped from being entered there because they rejected Him.  Their names will be blotted out forever from the kingdom in this way.  But God endures eternally and unchanging; He has a throne of judgment made ready for the final court case of everyone who ever lived, and the judgment of the heavenly court will be in His righteousness, that found only in His Anointed (Acts 4:12, John 14:6).  God will pass sentencing at that time (Revelation 20:12, 15) and there will be no reprieve, no second chance after death as some erroneously believe (Hebrews 9:27-28) apart from God’s Anointed.  This is just and fair judgment and sentencing for our sin and rejection of Christ or acceptance of Him as the work acceptable to God for deliverance from such a fate (John 6:29).  God is a refuge to shelter the poor in spirit who acknowledge their need of Him and His righteousness.  Those putting their trust, their faith, in Him do so because they know His name which He revealed to them, and He does not leave them behind.  This was David’s hope and ours in God’s just working of righteous judgment.  Amen.