Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 9:6

6. O thou enemy , destructions are come to a perpetual end : and thou hast destroyed Cities, their memorial is perished with them .

This is a sudden Apostrophe to the Enemies of God's People, Philistins, Amorites, or other Nations, who had formerly made great Havock and Wast among them.

Thou hast destroyed the Israelitish Nation utterly and irrecoverably, and, as it follows, their defenced Cities, and their very Name and Memory, according to thy own desire. So it is a Sarcasme or Jrony, an usual Figure in Scripture and all Authors, whereby the quite contrary is signified. To wit, That they were not only frustrated of their Desires and Hopes of destroying the Israelites, but were also subdued, and in a great part destroyed by them. Or this verse may be understood of the great Wast and Ruine which God's Enemies had brought upon Israel before this time: which is here remembred, to make the Israelites more thankful for their later or present Deliverances. Or it may be taken as a Prophecy of the future Calamities which the Enemies should by God's Permission bring upon Israel, of which he speaks as of a thing past and done, after the manner of the Prophets. But this place is otherwise rendered in the Margent of our Bibles, and by divers others, The Destructions of the enemy (which may be understood either 1. Actively, which they caused. Or 2. Passively, which they felt) are come to a perpetual end, or, are fully and finally compleated.

Either 1. Thou, O God, who is oft understood and couched in a Pronoun in this manner, Thou hast destroyed their Cities. Or rather 2. Thou, O Enemy: as may be gathered both from the foregoing Clause, where it is so expressed; and from the next Verse, where it follows by way of opposition to this, But the Lord, &c.

The Places and People are utterly exstinct.

Marginal references: Or, the destructions of the enemy are [illegible: 1 word] to a perpetual end, and their cities hast [illegible: 1 word] destroyed, & [illegible: 1+ letters].