Devotional Short Note of Psalm 9: David’s name appears as header for chapter 9 but not for 10. Some wants to connect 9-10 as one psalm. Especially some later ancient versions like Greek and Latin wanted to do that, but it is not necessary. The Psalm itself is full of pockets of separate content themes that are repeated again in other Psalms, not only in Psalm 9 or Psalm 10. Pockets of thanksgiving are throughout the whole Psalm corpus. It is actually throughout the Bible. The Investigative Judgment pocket reoccur a number of times in chapters 9-10. God and His protection of the humble and oppressed is a theme pocket that appears many times in the Psalms as a whole and in chapters 9-10. The images of the Executive Judgment are appearing in pockets throughout the Psalm corpus and also in chapters 9-10. Although David talked as if God has accomplished eschatology for him by subduing the nations, for example in 9:17 where the perfect form of the verb described it as a past event in David’s experience, yet in 9:21 it is clear that it is actually not yet: “Set terror over them, O Lord; let the nations know they are but men”. So when we see eschatological themes mentioned by David, he outlines the final result of the wicked and the final result of the faithful. David started by saying he wants to thank the Lord (future verbs used) (9:2a-3b). He describes Why and How because his enemies “will stumble and will perish”. It is not yet and the future forms of the verbs are used (Psalm 9:4b). What he is sure about the Lord in his now of his life, is that God has “done my judgment [misphat = destiny] and my investigative judgment [din = cause]”. Christ took away our Hell and Second Death for us and is also our Highpriest in the Heavenly courts since 1844. David in hope claims both. The Father (Almighty of Daniel 7) is sitting on the throne as the righteous judge (9:5b). When the Investigative Judgment is done, the Second Coming past, at the Hell event after the millennium, David can see in vision the completion of eschatology when he says “You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked, You have blotted out their names for ever and ever” (9:6). Did it happen in David’s day? No. The biblical doctrine of judgment displays the periods of God’s schedule and David saw enlightened that future event as a past virtually, like a “heavenly Youtube” played for him. He saw the result of his enemy in advance: they will be no more “for ever” (9:7). The Almighty on His throne in Daniel 7, also David saw virtually in advance, “and the Lord is enthroned forever” (9:8). He then uses a word that is very important: “establishing”. The word is konen and is related to kūn for “prepared”. David says: “establishing [process in mind since it is a participle] His throne for [executive] judgment”. The purpose of the Investigative Judgment since 1844 is to “establish” harmony in the universe. The stigma of saved sinners has to be cleared by the High Priest Christ on their behalf according to Daniel 7. It is since 1844 according to Daniel 8:14. The cleansing of the Heavenly Sanctuary (Daniel 8:14) is because of the actions of Satan and the Little Horn proxy of Daniel 8:10, 12 and Satan himself in Daniel 8:11 where it is stated that Satan “threw down [hashlik, see the masculine = Satan, and not the horn = feminine use of the verb here] the makun [= niche of tranquility, niche of equilibrium of peace and harmony, thus related to kanun and kun in root mentioned above in Psalm 9:8b] of His Sanctuary”. In this verse in Psalm 9:8b David saw the “picking up” action of broken pieces of the Chinese vase by Satan in Daniel 8:11 and mending it together again by Christ since 1844 in Daniel 8:14, as an accomplished task and thus the Investigative Judgment is over, only the Executive Judgment of Hell remains for the wicked later. David step back to say that when God establishes His throne for judgment, it also includes the Investigative Judgment that precedes this final Executive Judgment and that “He will judge [notice the future tense, not an action in David’s day] the inhabited world [tebal, a special use for world] in righteousness” (9:9). “He [Christ our High Priest] will investigate-judge [din as opposed to misphat as executive judgment] to the peoples [remnant of faithful ones] with uprightness” (9:9b). Christ was perfect and no taint of sin was in Him. That is why He qualifies to be our High Priest since 1844 on our behalf. Then follows the patch of David thinking of how God feels about the oppressed and the humble which is repeated elsewhere again (9:19; 10:14b-c and 10:17-18). Of course the whole Psalms let this pocket with the oppressed and humble them reappear. In 9:13 God has remembered the humble. In 9:12 it may sound as if David thinks he is living in Zion but no, it is those who will be saved at the end-time will live in the New Jerusalem coming from heaven and that is the Zion that David is shown virtually here in 9:12. They are the saved and remnant coming out of the Investigative Judgment cleared and through the time of Trouble after that resurrected and taken to heaven by Christ. From 9:14 David wants to move from theoretical and virtual events in future to practical application in his life now. The eschatological frame is well-known by him. But what he appeals for here in 9:14,, is that the Lord help him in his affliction domestically. The reason is given in 9:15 so that he can praise the Lord in the “gates of the daughter of Zion”. He “will tell” (future). Remember there are going to be a retelling also for us in heaven one day. Nations made for themselves pits and sunk in what their own hands designed (9:16). Again in 9:17 David returns to the eschatological theme pocket by adding another one showing that God is finished with His Executive Judgment and that things are not so good for the evil. It is not present in David’s day already because in 9:18 he says “the wicked shall [future] return to Sheol”. God shall not forget the needy (9:19). This is the pocket on the theme of the status of the needy and the poor. Is judgment over for David? No, in 9:20 he hopes that God “will judge the nations” (yishphathu). The (yi-) shows you it is future. Did they already receive “Executive Judgment” from God? No. In line with biblical doctrine embedded by the Holy Spirit in unison language and content, David is asking that terror be set over them [not yet] but that eschatological day at the Hell event.