Psalm 9:10 Study Bible: And those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

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Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.

Those who know Your name
This phrase emphasizes the importance of a personal and intimate understanding of God's character and essence. In Hebrew, the word for "know" is "yada," which implies a deep, experiential knowledge rather than mere intellectual awareness. The "name" of God in the Hebrew context often represents His nature, authority, and reputation. Knowing God's name means recognizing His attributes such as faithfulness, justice, and mercy. Historically, the Israelites experienced God's character through His actions and covenants, which reinforced their trust in Him.

trust in You
Trust, or "batach" in Hebrew, conveys a sense of security and confidence. It is not a passive belief but an active reliance on God. This trust is built on the foundation of knowing God's name and character. Throughout the Bible, trust in God is portrayed as a refuge and strength, especially in times of trouble. The historical context of the psalm, possibly during David's reign, reflects a period where trust in God was essential for survival and victory over enemies.

for You, O LORD
The use of "LORD" in all caps signifies the translation of the divine name "YHWH" or "Yahweh," which is the covenant name of God revealed to Moses. This name is associated with God's eternal existence and His unchanging nature. It is a reminder of God's personal relationship with His people and His commitment to His promises. The invocation of "YHWH" here underscores the personal and covenantal aspect of the trust being expressed.

have not forsaken
The Hebrew word "azab" means to leave, abandon, or forsake. This assurance that God does not forsake His people is a recurring theme in Scripture, providing comfort and hope. Historically, the Israelites experienced periods of exile and hardship, yet the promise of God's presence remained a cornerstone of their faith. This phrase reassures believers of God's unwavering commitment and presence, even in difficult times.

those who seek You
To "seek" in Hebrew is "darash," which implies a diligent pursuit or inquiry. Seeking God involves a wholehearted effort to understand and follow His will. It is an active engagement in prayer, worship, and obedience. The historical context of seeking God often involved communal worship and adherence to the law, reflecting a lifestyle centered around God's presence. This phrase encourages believers to continually pursue a deeper relationship with God, knowing that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

Persons / Places / Events

1. David
The author of Psalm 9, David was the second king of Israel and a man after God's own heart. He often expressed his trust in God through the Psalms.

2. The LORD (Yahweh)
The covenant name of God, emphasizing His eternal presence and faithfulness to His people.

3. Israel
The nation chosen by God, often the primary audience of the Psalms, who experienced God's faithfulness and deliverance.

Teaching Points

Knowing God's Name
Understanding the significance of God's name involves recognizing His character and attributes. In Hebrew, "name" (shem) often represents the essence of a person. Knowing God's name means knowing His faithfulness, love, and power.

Trust as a Response
Trusting in God is a natural response to knowing His character. The Hebrew word for trust (batach) implies confidence and security. Believers are called to place their confidence in God's unchanging nature.

Seeking God
Actively seeking God is a recurring theme in Scripture. It involves pursuing a relationship with Him through prayer, worship, and obedience. God promises not to forsake those who earnestly seek Him.

God's Faithfulness
The assurance that God does not forsake His people is a cornerstone of faith. This promise provides comfort and encouragement, especially in times of trouble or uncertainty.

Bible Study Questions

1. What does it mean to "know" God's name, and how can this knowledge deepen your trust in Him?

2. How can you actively seek God in your daily life, and what practices can help you grow in this area?

3. Reflect on a time when you felt forsaken. How does Psalm 9:10 reassure you of God's presence and faithfulness?

4. How does understanding the original Hebrew word for "trust" (batach) enhance your perspective on relying on God?

5. In what ways can you share the truth of God's faithfulness with others who may be struggling to trust Him?

Connections to Other Scriptures

Proverbs 18:10
This verse speaks of the name of the LORD as a strong tower, where the righteous run and are safe, highlighting the protective power of God's name.

Hebrews 11:6
This passage emphasizes that God rewards those who earnestly seek Him, aligning with the promise that God does not forsake those who seek Him.

Isaiah 26:3-4
These verses speak of perfect peace for those who trust in the LORD, reinforcing the theme of trust in God's faithfulness.

Sermons

Confidence	J. Blundell.	Psalm 9:10
Dilemma and Deliverance		Psalm 9:10
Dilemma and Deliverance	Charles Haddon Spurgeon	Psalm 9:10
The Effect of Knowing God	Francis Hutchinson, D. D.	Psalm 9:10
The Knowledge of God Essential to Trust in Him	C. M. Merry.	Psalm 9:10
The Name of God	Canon F. C. Cook.	Psalm 9:10
The Name of God	D. Charles.	Psalm 9:10
Trust in God	J. A. Picton.	Psalm 9:10
Trusting in God	A. J. F. Behrends, D. D.	Psalm 9:10
Vital Knowledge Necessary to Real Peace	P. B. Power, M. A.	Psalm 9:10
A Praiseful Heart		Psalm 9:1-20
Praise for the Destroyer's Destruction	C. Clemance	Psalm 9:1-20
Praise, Trust, and Prayer	F. B. Meyer, B. A.	Psalm 9:1-20
The Ministry of Praise	J. H. Jowett, M. A.	Psalm 9:1-20
A Righteous God	C. Short	Psalm 9:7-12
A Free Refuge		Psalm 9:9-10
The Lord Our Refuge	John Trapp.	Psalm 9:9-10
The Refuge of the Oppressed	J. C. Philpot.	Psalm 9:9-10

People

David, Psalmist

Places

Jerusalem

Topics

Confide, Faith, Forsaken, Hast, O, Seek, Seeking, Trust, Waiting

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Psalm 9:10

     5029   knowledge, of God
     5914   optimism
     8023   faith, necessity
     8135   knowing God, nature of
     8224   dependence

Psalm 9:4-10

5581 throne

Psalm 9:9-10

8031 trust, importance

Library

Dilemma and Deliverance
Now, this morning, in addressing you, I shall divide my text into three parts. First, I shall note a certain fiery dart of Satan; secondly, I shall point out to you heaven's divine buckler, as hinted at in the text--"Thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee;" and then, in the third place, I shall notice man's precious privilege of seeking God, and so of arming himself against Satan. I. First, then, I am to dwell for a little time upon A CERTAIN FIERY DART OF SATAN WHICH IS CONSTANTLY SHOT …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 6: 1860

Joy in Salvation
"I will rejoice in thy salvation."--Psalm 9:4. I DESIRE to continue the topic of the morning, only we will look at another side of the same important matter. We spoke this morning, as you have not forgotten, upon these words, "Your own salvation." I trust most of us--would God I could hope all of us--were earnest about our own personal salvation. To those who are earnest this second text will be the complement of the first. They desire that their own salvation shall be secure; it is their own salvation …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 62: 1916

Cry we Therefore with the Spirit of Charity...
26. Cry we therefore with the spirit of charity, and until we come to the inheritance in which we are alway to remain, let us be, through love which becometh the free-born, not through fear which becometh bondmen, patient of suffering. Cry we, so long as we are poor, until we be with that inheritance made rich. Seeing how great earnest thereof we have received, in that Christ to make us rich made Himself poor; Who being exalted unto the riches which are above, there was sent One Who should breathe …
St. Augustine—On Patience

A Few Sighs from Hell;
or, The Groans of the Damned Soul: or, An Exposition of those Words in the Sixteenth of Luke, Concerning the Rich Man and the Beggar WHEREIN IS DISCOVERED THE LAMENTABLE STATE OF THE DAMNED; THEIR CRIES, THEIR DESIRES IN THEIR DISTRESSES, WITH THE DETERMINATION OF GOD UPON THEM. A GOOD WARNING WORD TO SINNERS, BOTH OLD AND YOUNG, TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION BETIMES, AND TO SEEK, BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, TO AVOID, LEST THEY COME INTO THE SAME PLACE OF TORMENT. Also, a Brief Discourse touching the …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

But Concerning True Patience, Worthy of the Name of this virtue...
12. But concerning true patience, worthy of the name of this virtue, whence it is to be had, must now be inquired. For there are some [2650] who attribute it to the strength of the human will, not which it hath by Divine assistance, but which it hath of free-will. Now this error is a proud one: for it is the error of them which abound, of whom it is said in the Psalm, "A scornful reproof to them which abound, and a despising to the proud." [2651] It is not therefore that "patience of the poor" which …
St. Augustine—On Patience

Jesus, My Rock.
When the storm and the tempest are raging around me, Oh! where shall I flee to be safe from their shock? There are walls which no mortal hands built to surround me, A Refuge Eternal,--'Tis JESUS MY ROCK! When my heart is all sorrow, and trials aggrieve me, To whom can I safely my secrets unlock? No bosom (save one) has the power to relieve me, The bosom which bled for me, JESUS MY ROCK! When Life's gloomy curtain, at last, shall close o'er me, And the chill hand of death unexpectedly knock, I will …
John Ross Macduff—The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus

"Because of his Importunity. "
"Nov. 19 [1846].--I am now led more and more to importune the Lord to send me the means, which are requisite in order that I may be able to commence the building. Because (1) it has been for some time past publicly stated in print, that I allow it is not without ground that some of the inhabitants of Wilson Street consider themselves inconvenienced by the Orphan-Houses being in that street, and I long therefore to be able to remove the Orphans from thence as soon as possible. (2) I become more and …
George Müller—Answers to Prayer

The Desire of the Righteous Granted;
OR, A DISCOURSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS MAN'S DESIRES. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR As the tree is known by its fruit, so is the state of a man's heart known by his desires. The desires of the righteous are the touchstone or standard of Christian sincerity--the evidence of the new birth--the spiritual barometer of faith and grace--and the springs of obedience. Christ and him crucified is the ground of all our hopes--the foundation upon which all our desires after God and holiness are built--and the root …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

The Heart's Desire Given to Help Mission Work in China.
"Sept. 30 [1869].--From Yorkshire L50.--Received also One Thousand Pounds to-day for the Lord's work in China. About this donation it is especially to be noticed, that for months it had been my earnest desire to do more than ever for Mission Work in China, and I had already taken steps to carry out this desire, when this donation of One Thousand Pounds came to hand. This precious answer to prayer for means should be a particular encouragement to all who are engaged in the Lord's work, and who may …
George Müller—Answers to Prayer

Introduction. Chapter i. --The Life and Writings of St. Hilary of Poitiers.
St. Hilary of Poitiers is one of the greatest, yet least studied, of the Fathers of the Western Church. He has suffered thus, partly from a certain obscurity in his style of writing, partly from the difficulty of the thoughts which he attempted to convey. But there are other reasons for the comparative neglect into which he has fallen. He learnt his theology, as we shall see, from Eastern authorities, and was not content to carry on and develop the traditional teaching of the West; and the disciple …
St. Hilary of Poitiers—The Life and Writings of St. Hilary of Poitiers

Trials of the Christian
AFFLICTION--ITS NATURE AND BENEFITS. The school of the cross is the school of light; it discovers the world's vanity, baseness, and wickedness, and lets us see more of God's mind. Out of dark afflictions comes a spiritual light. In times of affliction, we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. The end of affliction is the discovery of sin; and of that, to bring us to a Saviour. Doth not God ofttimes even take occasion, by the hardest of things that come upon us, to visit …
John Bunyan—The Riches of Bunyan

The Care of the Soul Urged as the one Thing Needful
Luke 10:42 -- "But one thing is needful." It was the amiable character of our blessed Redeemer, that "he went about doing good," this great motive, which animated all his actions, brought him to the house of his friend Lazarus, at Bethany, and directed his behavior there. Though it was a season of recess from public labor, our Lord brought the sentiments and the pious cares of a preacher of righteousness into the parlor of a friend; and there his doctrine dropped as the rain, and distilled as the …
George Whitefield—Selected Sermons of George Whitefield

Letter xix (A. D. 1127) to Suger, Abbot of S. Denis
To Suger, Abbot of S. Denis He praises Suger, who had unexpectedly renounced the pride and luxury of the world to give himself to the modest habits of the religious life. He blames severely the clerk who devotes himself rather to the service of princes than that of God. 1. A piece of good news has reached our district; it cannot fail to do great good to whomsoever it shall have come. For who that fear God, hearing what great things He has done for your soul, do not rejoice and wonder at the great …
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux—Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux

King of Kings and Lord of Lords
And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, K ING OF K INGS AND L ORD OF L ORDS T he description of the administration and glory of the Redeemer's Kingdom, in defiance of all opposition, concludes the second part of Messiah Oratorio. Three different passages from the book of Revelation are selected to form a grand chorus, of which Handel's title in this verse is the close --a title which has been sometimes vainly usurped by proud worms of this earth. Eastern monarchs, in particular, …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 2

The Knowledge of God
'The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.' I Sam 2:2. Glorious things are spoken of God; he transcends our thoughts, and the praises of angels. God's glory lies chiefly in his attributes, which are the several beams by which the divine nature shines forth. Among other of his orient excellencies, this is not the least, The Lord is a God of knowledge; or as the Hebrew word is, A God of knowledges.' Through the bright mirror of his own essence, he has a full idea and cognisance …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

The Justice of God
The next attribute is God's justice. All God's attributes are identical, and are the same with his essence. Though he has several attributes whereby he is made known to us, yet he has but one essence. A cedar tree may have several branches, yet it is but one cedar. So there are several attributes of God whereby we conceive of him, but only one entire essence. Well, then, concerning God's justice. Deut 32:4. Just and right is he.' Job 37:23. Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

A Preliminary Discourse to Catechising
'If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled.' - Col 1:23. Intending next Lord's day to enter upon the work of catechising, it will not be amiss to give you a preliminary discourse, to show you how needful it is for Christians to be well instructed in the grounds of religion. If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled.' I. It is the duty of Christians to be settled in the doctrine of faith. II. The best way for Christians to be settled is to be well grounded. I. It is the duty of Christians …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

Psalms
The piety of the Old Testament Church is reflected with more clearness and variety in the Psalter than in any other book of the Old Testament. It constitutes the response of the Church to the divine demands of prophecy, and, in a less degree, of law; or, rather, it expresses those emotions and aspirations of the universal heart which lie deeper than any formal demand. It is the speech of the soul face to face with God. Its words are as simple and unaffected as human words can be, for it is the genius …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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