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3When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

Psalms 9:3

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; …

  • It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

  • Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

  • And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

  • Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-10)

The title of this psalm gives a very uncertain sound concerning the occasion of penning it. It is upon Muth-labben , which some make to refer to the death of Goliath, others of Nabal, others of Absalom; but I incline to think it signifies only some tone, or some musical instrument, to which this psalm was intended to be sung; and that the enemies David is here triumphing in the defeat of are the P…

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