Psalm 9:9
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New International Version (©1984)
The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The LORD is a shelter for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The LORD also will be a stronghold for the oppressed, A stronghold in times of trouble;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Lord Jehovah shall be a place of refuge for the poor and their helper in times of suffering.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

American King James Version
The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

American Standard Version
Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.

Darby Bible Translation
And Jehovah will be a refuge to the oppressed one, a refuge in times of distress.

English Revised Version
The LORD also will be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble;

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

World English Bible
Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord also will be a refuge - Margin, an high place. The margin expresses the more exact sense of the, Hebrew word - משׂגב miśgâb. It means properly height, altitude; then a height, rock, crag; and then, as such localities, being inaccessible to an enemy, were sought in times of danger as places of secure retreat, it comes to denote a place of security and refuge, Psalm 18:2; Psalm 46:7, Psalm 46:11; Psalm 48:3; Psalm 59:9, Psalm 59:17; Psalm 94:22. The declaration here is equivalent to what is so often said, that God is a refuge, a rock, a high tower, a defense; meaning, that those referred to might find safety in him. See the notes at Psalm 18:2.

For the oppressed - literally, for those who are crushed, broken; hence, the dejected, afflicted, unhappy - דך dak - from דכך mor dākak - to beat small; to break in pieces; to crush. The allusion here is to those who are wronged or down-trodden; to the victims of tyranny and injustice. Such may look to God to vindicate them and their cause, and they will not look in vain. Sooner or later he will manifest himself as their protector and their helper. See Psalm 9:12.

A refuge in times of trouble - Not only for the oppressed, but for all those who are in trouble. Compare Psalm 46:1. That is, all such may come to him with the assurance that he will be ready to pity them in their sorrows, and to deliver them. The psalmist had found it so in his own case; and he infers that it would be so in all cases, and that this might be regarded as the general character of God.


Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

A refuge - משגב misgab, a high place, where their enemies can neither reach nor see them. He who has God for his portion has all safety in him.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed,.... The poor and weak, such as have no might nor power, and are thrown down and trampled upon, as the word (i) signifies; and such are the people of God. They are oppressed with the burden of sin; they are bowed down with Satan and his temptations; and are sometimes pressed out of measure, and above their strength, with the persecutions of men; they are trodden under foot by antichrist, or otherwise are borne down with a variety of sorrows and afflictions; but the Lord is a refuge for them. The Chaldee paraphrase renders it as before, "the Word of the Lord", the eternal Logos, the Son of God: he is a refuge for poor sensible sinners, fleeing from wrath to come; being typified by the cities of refuge, whither the manslayer fled from the avenger of blood: he is the strong hold for the prisoners of hope to turn into; his name is a strong tower and place of defence for oppressed saints; he is a refuge when all others fail, and at all times, in the day of affliction, and in the hour of death, and at judgment;

a refuge in times of trouble; of which the saints have many, as when God hides his face, when corruptions prevail, when grace is low in exercise, and temptations are strong, yet even then Christ is the refuge from the storm; the salvation of his people is of him, and he is their strength in every time of trouble; see Isaiah 25:4.

(i) "attrito", Cocceius, Gejerus: "contrito", Michaelis.


Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

(Heb.: 9:10-11) Thus judging the nations Jahve shows Himself to be, as a second ו-strophe says, the refuge and help of His own. The voluntative with Waw of sequence expresses that which the poet desires for his own sake and for the sake of the result mentioned in Psalm 9:11. משׂגּב, a high, steep place, where one is removed from danger, is a figure familiar to David from the experiences of his time of persecution. דּך (in pause דּך) is properly one who is crushed (from דּכך equals דּכא, דּכה to crush, break in pieces, דקק to pulverize), therefore one who is overwhelmed to the extreme, even to being completely crushed. The parallel is לעתּות בצּרה with the datival ל (as probably also in Psalm 10:1). עתּות from עת (time, and then both continuance, Psalm 81:16, and condition) signifies the public relations of the time, or even the vicissitudes of private life, Psalm 31:16; and בצּרה is not הצּרה with בּ (Bttch.), which gives an expression that is meaninglessly minute ("for times in the need"), but one word, formed from בּצּר (to cut off, Arab. to see, prop. to discern keenly), just like בּקּשׁה ekil from בּקּשׁ, prop. a cutting off, or being cut off, i.e., either restraint, especially motionlessness ( equals בּצּרת, Jeremiah 17:8, plur. בּצּרות Jeremiah 14:1), or distress, in which the prospect of deliverance is cut off. Since God is a final refuge for such circumstances of hopelessness in life, i.e., for those who are in such circumstances, the confidence of His people is strengthened, refreshed, and quickened. They who know His name, to them He has now revealed its character fully, and that by His acts; and they who inquire after Him, or trouble and concern themselves about Him (this is what דּרשׁ signifies in distinction from בּקּשׁ), have now experienced that He also does not forget them, but makes Himself known to them in the fulness of His power and mercy.


Geneva Study Bible

The LORD also will be a refuge for the {d} oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

(d) Our miseries are meant to cause us to feel God's present care over us.


King James Translators' Notes

a refuge: Heb. an high place


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9, 10. The oppressed, and all who know Him (Ps 5:3; 7:1), find Him a sure refuge.


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

9:1-10 If we would praise God acceptably, we must praise him in sincerity, with our whole heart. When we give thanks for some one particular mercy, we should remember former mercies. Our joy must not be in the gift, so much as in the Giver. The triumphs of the Redeemer ought to be the triumphs of the redeemed. The almighty power of God is that which the strongest and stoutest of his enemies are no way able to stand before. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth, and that with him there is no unrighteousness. His people may, by faith, flee to him as their Refuge, and may depend on his power and promise for their safety, so that no real hurt shall be done to them. Those who know him to be a God of truth and faithfulness, will rejoice in his word of promise, and rest upon that. Those who know him to be an everlasting Father, will trust him with their souls as their main care, and trust in him at all times, even to the end; and by constant care seek to approve themselves to him in the whole course of their lives. Who is there that would not seek him, who never hath forsaken those that seek Him?


2 Samuel 22:3 my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior--from violent men you save me.
Psalm 10:18 defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.
Psalm 12:5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the LORD. "I will protect them from those who malign them."
Psalm 14:6 You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor, but the LORD is their refuge.
Psalm 32:7 You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
Psalm 37:39 The salvation of the righteous comes from the LORD; he is their stronghold in time of trouble.
Psalm 46:1 For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
Psalm 46:7 The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Psalm 59:9 O my Strength, I watch for you; you, O God, are my fortress,
Psalm 59:16 But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.
Psalm 94:22 But the LORD has become my fortress, and my God the rock in whom I take refuge.
Jeremiah 14:8 O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are you like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays only a night?

Adversity Bruised Crushed Distress High Oppressed Refuge Stronghold Times Tower Trouble


The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

The Lord Ps 18:2 32:7 37:39 46:1 48:3 62:8 91:1,2 142:4 De 33:27 Pr 18:10 Isa 4:5,6 8:14 32:2 Na 1:7 Lu 13:34 Heb 6:18

be a refuge. Heb. be a high place Ps 20:1 46:7

in times Ps 50:15 77:1,2 108:12

Psalms Chapter 9 Verse 9

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