Psalms 9:12
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
In Context
11Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.
Cross References
Exodus 3:7The LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Judges 10:16They put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
Psalms 10:14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
Psalms 22:24For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
Psalms 76:3There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 9:12-20
A Call to Praise God; Certain Ruin of the Wicked. 11 Sing praises to the Lord , which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. 12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. 13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord ; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: 14 That I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. 15 The heathen are sunk… Read the whole commentary →