Psalms 9:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

Psalms 9:16 —

Old words in this verse

selah: — a pause or musical mark (meaning uncertain).

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 7:5
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
Joshua 2:10-11
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. …
Proverbs 12:13
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Judges 1:7
And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
Exodus 14:4
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-20)

In these verses, I. David, having praised God himself, calls upon and invites others to praise him likewise, Ps. 9:11. Those who believe God is greatly to be praised not only desire to do that work better themselves, but desire that others also may join with them in it and would gladly be instrumental to bring them to it: Sing praises to the Lord who dwelleth in Zion. As the special residence of h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

15-16. The undesigned results of the devices of the wicked prove them to be of God’s overruling or ordering, especially when those results are destructive to the wicked themselves.