The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 9:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Put them in fear, O Lord; literally, set fear to them; i.e. "make them afraid," either by striking a panic terror into them, as into the Syrians when they had brought Samaria to the last gasp (2 Kings 7:6, 2 Kings 7:7), or by causing them calmly to review the situation, and to see how dangerous it was to assail God's people (2 Kings 6:23). That the nations may know themselves to be but men. May recognize, i.e; their weakness; may remember that they are enosh—mere weak, frail, sickly, perishing mortals. Selah. Here this word occurs for the second time at the end of a psalm (see above, Psalms 3:8)—a position which militates against the idea of its signifying "a pause," since there must always have been a pause at the end of every psalm.

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