Psa 9:6 | NETfull | STEP | The enemy’s cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished.

Psalms 9:6

6 The enemy’s cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; ^{▼▼ Heb “the enemy – they have come to an end [in] ruins permanently.” The singular form אוֹיֵב (’oyev, “enemy”) is collective. It is placed at the beginning of the verse to heighten the contrast with יְהוָה (y^ehvah, “the Lord”) in v. 7.}
you destroyed their cities; ^{▼▼ Heb “you uprooted cities.”}
all memory of the enemies has perished. ^{▼▼ Heb “it has perished, their remembrance, they.” The independent pronoun at the end of the line is in apposition to the preceding pronominal suffix and lends emphasis (see IBHS 299 #16.3.4). The referent of the masculine pronoun is the nations/enemies (cf. v. 5), not the cities (the Hebrew noun עָרִים [’arim, “cities”] is grammatically feminine). This has been specified in the present translation for clarity; many modern translations retain the pronoun “them,” resulting in ambiguity (cf. NRSV “their cities you have rooted out; the very memory of them has perished”).}