Psalms 9:4
4 For you defended my just cause; ▼▼ Heb “for you accomplished my justice and my legal claim.”
from your throne you pronounced a just decision. ▼▼ Heb “you sat on a throne [as] one who judges [with] righteousness.” The perfect verbal forms in v.
4 probably allude to a recent victory (see vv.
5–7). Another option is to understand the verbs as describing what is typical (“you defend…you sit on a throne”).