# Psalm 009 General Notes ## Type of psalm Psalm 9 is a psalm of praise. ## Special concepts in this chapter ### Yahweh's protection God is a protector. He is all-powerful and his enemies cannot withstand him. ### Acrostic Psalm This psalm along with Psalm 10 form an acrostic. Which means that each unit begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. ### One Psalm or two This psalm has a superscription but Psalm 10 doesn't. This fact and the acrostic nature of the two psalms has lead some scholars to believe these two psalms may have originally been written as one psalm. ## Links: * __[Psalms 9:1](../../psa/009/001.md)__ __[<<](../008/intro.md) | [>>](../010/intro.md)__