Psalms 9 · Verse 16

Psalms 9:16

The 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, King James Version

Psalms 9:16 in other translations

BSBThe LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
WEBThe LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
ASVJehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. [Higgaion. Selah
YLTJehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.
DARBYJehovah is known by the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
BBEThe Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)
WebsterThe LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

What does Psalms 9:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 9:15-16

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.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 The Lord is known by the judgment - It is not every casualty that can properly be called a judgment of God. Judgment is his strange work; but when he executes it, his mind is plainly to be seen. There are no natural causes to which such calamities can be legally attributed. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands - There is nothing that a wicked man does that is not against his own interest. He is continually doing himself harm, and takes more pains to destroy his soul than the righteous man does to get his saved unto eternal life. This is a weighty truth; and the psalmist adds: Higgaion, Selah. Meditate on this; mark it well. See on Psa 3:3 (note). Some think that it is a direction to the musicians, something like our Presto, Largo, Vivace, Allegro, "Play briskly and boldly; beat away; and let sense and sound accompany each other."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 9:11-20

Those who believe that God is greatly to be praised, not only desire to praise him better themselves, but desire that others may join with them. There is a day coming, when it will appear that he has not forgotten the cry of the humble; neither the cry of their blood, or the cry of their prayers. We are never brought so low, so near to death, but God can raise us up. If he has saved us from spiritual and eternal…

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Psalms 9:16 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

נ֤וֹדַ֨ע\׀no.Da'he has made himself knownH3045
יְהוָה֮Yah.wehYahwehH3068
מִשְׁפָּ֪טmish.PatjusticeH4941
עָ֫שָׂ֥ה'a.Sahhe has doneH6213
בְּפֹ֣עַלbe.Fo.'alby [the] work ofH6467
כַּ֭פָּיוKa.pavhands hisH3709
נוֹקֵ֣שׁno.Kesh[he is] striking downH5367
רָשָׁ֑עra.Sha'[the] wickedH7563
הִגָּי֥וֹןhi.ga.YonHiggaionH1902
סֶֽלָה\׃Se.lahSelahH5542

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 9:16

  • 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.

  • Proverbs 12:13

    The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

  • Exodus 14:31

    And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and his servant Moses.

  • Psalms 83:17-18

    Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.

  • 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. And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.

  • Isaiah 8:15

    And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

  • Judges 1:7

    And Adoni–bezek 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.

  • 1 Samuel 17:46

    This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

  • Psalms 19:14

    Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

  • Psalms 58:10-11

    The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

  • Deuteronomy 29:22-28

    So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it; And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
known.
48:11; 58:10,11; 83:17,18; Ex 7:5; 14:4,10,31; De 29:22-28
Jos 2:10,11; Jud 1:7; 1Sa 6:19,20; 17:46; 2Ki 19:19,34,35
wicked.
11:6; 140:9; Pr 6:2; 12:13; Isa 8:15; 28:13
Higgaion, that is, Meditation.
5:1; 19:14; 92:3; *marg:

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Context

  • Psalms 9:15

    The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

  • Psalms 9:16

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

  • Psalms 9:17

    The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

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Psalms 9:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Jehová fué conocido en el juicio que hizo; en la obra de sus manos fué enlazado el malo. (Higaion. Selah.)
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Les nations se sont enfoncées dans la fosse qu’elles ont faite; au filet même qu’elles ont caché, leur pied a été pris.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Jehova ist bekannt geworden: er hat Gericht ausgeübt, indem er den Gesetzlosen verstrickt hat in dem Werke seiner Hände.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		exultabo in salutari tuo. Infixæ sunt gentes in interitu quem fecerunt; in laqueo isto quem absconderunt comprehensus est pes eorum.