Devotional Short Note to Psalm 10: Are you using a commentary that you bought in a Book-center around the corner? If that commentary is saying that Psalm 9 and 10 are connected as one Psalm, take out a yellow card. Furthermore, if the commentary is saying that the judgment in Psalm 9 is completed. Close the commentary. You do not need it since the author has missed very crucial grammatical detail in the text. David is using future verbs for the Judgment and his past verbs are all virtual reality “fast-forwarded” for him. Psalm 10 cannot be connected to Psalm 9, despite Jerome’s attempt in the Vulgate or the Greek manuscripts. In this Psalm the author wants to explain that the enemy is Phoenicia, to the North of Israel. How do we know that? Five times in the Psalm a typical Phoenician negative is used, which is bl = not. Sometimes this Phoenician negative is placed in the mouth of the godless expression of the wicked. The wicked in his pride says against God that “He will not [bl] seek…” (10:4a). He also said in his heart: “I shall not [bl] be moved” (10:6a). The wicked is a Phoenician. He also says in his heart: “God has forgotten, He hides His face, He will never [bl] see” (10:11b). Deism. The Philosophy of the Absent God, who created and left the world to run by itself not to care for it any longer. Rationalists in the 18-20^th century were Deists. They thought they were “Enlightened” or the “Aufklährung” people who are “progressed” in their thoughts. Good morning. God will search out the wickedness of the wicked person “until none [bl] is found” (10:15b). When God will take care of the humble the Man from the earth will “no [bl] more increase” (10:18a). Psalm 10 begins with a question why God is standing so far? (10:1a-b) In 10:14 the answer is given: “You have seen” and not only that “You, You are the Helper of the fatherless”. He emphasized that the Lord is the Helper by repeating the pronoun twice. Just in case the reader missed it the first time, do not excuse yourself for there was a second time! The wicked is described between vv. 2-11, that he pursues the poor (v. 2a); that he boasts (v. 3a); he is proud (v. 4a); he puffed at his enemies (v. 5c); he curses and oppress (v. 7a); he slays the innocent (v. 8b); he catches the poor (v. 9). In 10:15 the author says that he wished God would break the arm of the wicked and that God must search the wickedness until nothing is found. It appears as if his enemy was from Phoenicia (current Syria). Then the author is given a virtual vision into the future when Christ will receive the kingship from His Father and will be the King of Kings “forever and ever” (10:16a). Then with the Investigative Judgment past, the Second Coming will happen and Resurrection. After the Millennium “the nations are perished out of His land” (10:16b). Is modern Israel "His land" here? The new earth that Christ will create after the Hell event will be "His land" and the wicked will not be there.