Psalm 9

Psalm 9 is the 9th psalm of the Book of Psalms.

The message in the psalm is that the successes of evil are only temporary, and in the end, only the righteous will endure.Psalm 10 is considered part of Psalm 9 in the Greek Septuagint and in most pre-Reformation Christian Bibles. These two consecutive Psalms have the form of a single acrostic Hebrew poem.

The Psalm is an acrostic Hebrew poem, and with Psalm 10 forms a single combined work. Hermann Gunkel rated the Psalm by the alphabetical arrangement as an "artificial" product. Saying On the inner connection of such artificial product allowed to make not too stringent. The author might have been happy if he had found for each letter an appropriate word; to make his poem to a completely unified work of art, not enough its poetic power. " Anders by contrast calls the shape of the Psalm an ' elegant correspondence of form. In describing the Structure of Psalm 9/10 there are some quite different approaches.

The Old Testament scholar Hermann Gunkel divided as follows Psalm 9

The French theologian Pierre Auffret gives the following structure for Psalm 9:

Some scholars doubt the Davidic Authorship. Bernhard Duhm and Emil Kautzsch date it to the Maccabean time while Hermann Gunkel, accepts the Persian era.

According to the Rule of St. Benedict (530 AD), Psalm 1 to Psalm 20 were mainly reserved for the office of Prime. In the Rule of St. Benedict, Psalm 9 is sung by the Latin version translated in the Greek of the Septuagint; therein, Psalm includes 18 additional verses in Psalm 10. Benedict divided this joint Psalm 9/10 in two parts, one sung to the end of the office of Prime Tuesday (Psalm 9: 1-19) and the other (Psalm 9: 20-21 and Psalm 10: 1-18) earlier on Wednesday. In other words, the first verses of Psalm 9 until Quoniam non in finem erit oblivio pauperis: patientia pauperum non peribit in finem, formed the third and final psalm on Tuesday, the second part of the Psalm (Vulgate according to his view) was recited as the first psalm of the office of the prime Wednesday. Psalms 9 and 10 were traditionally recited as the fourth and fifth Psalms of Sunday Matins in the Liturgy of non monks clerics and canons). In the Liturgy of the Hours now, Psalm 9 or sung to the Office of Readings for Monday of the first Week.

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