John Gill Commentary Psalms 9:7

"But Jehovah sitteth [as king] for ever: He hath prepared his throne for judgment;" — Psalms 9:7 (ASV)

But the Lord shall endure for ever
When antichrist is entirely ruined, his cities destroyed, and the memorial of them perished, then "shall the Lord sit forever" ^F7 , as the words may be rendered; that is, as a Jewish writer ^F8 paraphrases them, in rest and quiet. The words may be expressive of the unchangeableness and eternity and power of God; the Chaldee paraphrase of them is, (yyd armym) , "the Word of the Lord is for ever; his habitation is in the highest heavens". And they may very well be interpreted of Christ, the essential Word of God, who is the unchangeable, everlasting, and almighty God; and who sits King for ever, and must sit at God's right hand, in the highest heavens, until all his enemies are made his footstool; and to him most properly do the following things in this verse (Psalms 9:8) belong:

he has prepared his throne for judgment ;
for the administration of judgment in this world, for the particular judgment after death, and for the general judgment after the resurrection of the dead; which seems by what follows to be chiefly meant, and which will come on after the destruction of antichrist; and all things are preparing for it; the day is appointed in which God will judge the world; Christ is ordained to be the Judge of quick and dead; devils and ungodly men are reserved to the judgment of the great day; the throne is ready, which will be a white one, (Revelation 20:11) ; denoting the purity, justice, and uprightness of the Judge, who himself is at the door.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F7: (bvy) "sedebit", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Cocceius, Michaelis; so Ainsworth; "sedet", Vatablus, Musculus.
• F8: R. Abraham Seba in Tzeror Hammor, fol. 150. 2.