Message Notes

APPROPRIATE RESPONSES

1. To sing to the LORD

a) To sing praises to God

b) Who dwells in Zion   (Psalm 9:11a)

2. To declare God’s deeds

a) God’s deeds

b) They need to be declared   (Psalm 9:11b)

c) What are some reasons for these two responses?

3. Praying humbly

a) Plea for mercy   (Psalm 9:13a)

b) Consider my trouble   (Psalm 9:13b)

i) Enemies who hate

ii) Gates of death

4. Further Appropriate Response

a) That I may tell of Your praise

b) In the gates of the daughter of Zion

c) I will rejoice in Your salvation   (Psalm 9:14)

5. Reflections about the Wicked

a) God will avenge those whose blood had been shed wrongly
(Psalm 9:12a)

b) The nations

i) Have sunk in the pit they made   (Psalm 9:15)

ii) Have been caught in their own net   (Psalm 9:15b)

c) The wicked
He is snared in the work of his own hands   (Psalm 9:16b)

d) The wicked shall be turned into hell   (Psalm 9:17)
The nations that have forgotten God

e) That the nations may know afresh that they are but men (mere mortals)

6. Reflections about the Needy

a) They shall not be forgotten   (Psalm 9:18a)

b) The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever   (Psalm 9:18b)

7. Reflections about the LORD

a) The LORD is known by the judgment He makes   (Psalm 9:16a)

b) The petitioner may say
Arise. O LORD,
Do not let men prevail (Psalm 9:19a)

c) He may further say
“Let the nations be judged in Your sight   (Psalm 9:19b)

d) That the LORD may be feared   (Psalm 9:20)