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A hymn of praise to God for deliverance so far, Psalm 9 is also a plea that the deliverance may continue.
The psalm is attributed to David, who certainly had enough occasions in his long conflict with Saul to thank God for saving him, while at the same time he realized that he wasn’t out of the woods yet.
To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will tell of all thy wonderful deeds.
I will be glad and exult in thee,
I will sing praise to thy name, O Most High.
When my enemies turned back,
they stumbled and perished before thee.
For thou hast maintained my just cause;
thou hast sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.
Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked;
thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
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Forgetfulness is one aspect of this topic-of ‘praising God’. How about my shame of holding back, or even denying Him when it comes to ‘praising God to the whole world’? How do I get over that? I even ‘feel’ (bristle) when someone says ‘praise god’ or ‘thank you Jesus’, or ‘have a blessed day’ even though I rejoice with them secretly to myself. How ungrateful is that? Such hypocrisy on my part. I feel like Peter when he’s denying him to the server girl in the courtyard.
I love David, and thus the Psalms, b/c such a sinner he was-albeit a humble, honest, remorseful, exuberant one—he ran the gamut on human emotions. This will sound wierd but I always thought he deserved to be honored (for lack of a better word) as Peter and Paul are by our Catholic faith. He is/was so real to me…so sincere to his creator despite his many, (grave) misgivings (sins).
Ok, I’m done ‘blagging’ (bloggging & blabbing). Thanks
I praise God for His protection of me. That is not to say that I neither suffer nor sorrow, because I do both. Without God’s protection, my suffering and sorrow would be meaningless. Instead I rejoice that he has more for me to do here on earth.