What does Psalms Chapter 9 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

The Latin incipit is Confitebor tibi, Domine. The separate heading describes the church praising God for protection. The inscription is unto the end, for the Son's hidden things, for David. The note explains these as Christ's humility and sufferings and those of good Christians, adopted sons, whose value and merit worldly children do not know.

In the psalmist’s speech, the speaker vows wholehearted praise, wonders, gladness and song. When his enemy turns back, they weaken and perish before God, who maintained his cause and judgment on the throne. He recounts rebuked Gentiles, a perished wicked one, names blotted out, failed enemy swords, destroyed cities and memory perishing with noise. The Lord remains, prepares judgment and will judge world and people in equity and justice. He is refuge for the poor and timely helper in trouble. The speaker calls for trust because seekers have not been forsaken, and song and declaration of His ways from Sion among Gentiles, as God requires blood and remembers the poor's cry.

In the psalmist’s speech, he asks mercy for humiliation and speaks of being lifted from death's gates to declare praises at the daughter of Sion's gates. He rejoices in salvation and describes Gentiles stuck in their prepared destruction and hidden snare, and sinners caught in their own works as the Lord executes judgment. The wicked and nations forgetting God turn to hell, but the poor and their patience will not be forgotten or perish forever. He asks God to arise, not strengthen man, judge Gentiles and appoint a lawgiver so they know they are men.

In the psalmist’s speech, the separate numbering note says late Hebrew doctors split at verse 22 as Psalm 10 and join 146/147 to keep 150, as numbered in the Protestant Bible. Under 'Psalm 10 according to the Hebrews,' the prayer asks why God is far off and slights needs in trouble. The wicked is proud and the poor set on fire; 'they' are caught in devised counsels without an expressly clarified referent. The sinner is praised in his desires and the unjust blessed, provokes God and does not seek Him, has filthy ways and judgments out of sight and rules over enemies. He boasts of being unmoved and without evil through generations, with cursing, bitterness, deceit, labor and sorrow in speech.

In the psalmist’s speech, he sits in ambush with the rich to kill the innocent and waits like a lion for the poor, drawing and bringing him down in a net, crouching and falling when he has power. He says God forgot and turned His face away. The speaker asks an exalted hand and remembrance of the poor, questioning the claim God will not require it. God sees labor and sorrow; the poor is left to Him and He helps the orphan. The request is to break the sinner's arm and seek his sin without finding it. The Lord reigns eternally and Gentiles perish from His land. He heard the poor's desire and preparation of heart, judging for fatherless and humble so man no longer magnifies himself.