Psalm 9:5 describing ECT?

[Alex_Smith]

In describing the destruction of his enemies, David moves from the local perspective (vv. 3-5) to the eternal perspective (v6).

3 When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before*****

your presence.
4 For you have maintained my just cause;
you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

5 You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.

**Footnotes:
*** or because of
Interestingly the Hebrew word here [in v6] is netzach, “forever”.

I wonder if this helps…

3 When my enemies are reversed backward,
They shall stumble and perish from Your presence,
4 For You execute my judgment and my adjudication;
You are seated on the throne, judging righteously.

5 You rebuke the nations; You destroy the wicked;
You wipe out their name for the eon and further.
6 As for the enemy, they will come to end like permanent deserts,
And You will eliminate their cities;
their remembrance will perish with them.

[Origen]

…By contrast the wicked are doomed to destruction forever (Ps 9:6 [H 7])…

The above false claim is from the TWOT lexicon re AD[Strongs 5703], as quoted in the OP.

Regarding Psalm 9 6[H7] the TWOT claims the wicked are doomed to destruction “forever”, but the word AD[5703]doesn’t even appear in verse 6. *.

Perhaps Psa.9:5 was meant which the KJV renders by the self contradictory “for ever and ever”, LE OWLAM WA ED[5703 AD], as if it were possible to add any time to “for ever”. The rendering “for ever & ever” is not translation, but interpretation, so misleads the reader.

Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. (Psa.9:5, KJV)

You rebuke the nations; You destroy the wicked; You wipe out their name for the eon and further. (Psa.9:5, CLV)

Thou hast rebuked the nations, Thou hast destroyed the lawless one, Their name, hast thou wiped out, to times age-abiding and beyond. (Psa.9:5, Rotherham)

Thou hast rebuked nations, Thou hast destroyed the wicked, Their name Thou hast blotted out to the age and for ever*. (Psa.9:5, YLT)

• for “for ever” Young of YLT says substitute “age during” everywhere in Scripture: heraldmag.org/olb/Contents/bibles/ylt.pdf

for eon and futurity
scripture4all.org/OnlineInte … f/psa9.pdf

ἐπετίμησας ἔθνεσιν καὶ ἀπώλετο ὁ ἀσεβής τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῶν ἐξήλειψας εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα καὶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος (LXX)

εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα καὶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος meaning literally for the aion and for the aion of the aion *

The wicked of Sodom were destroyed from life on earth in this eon. Psa.9:5 of the Hebrew OT says it will continue “beyond”[AD, 5703] that, or as the LXX Greek OT says, into the “eon of the eon”, which may be a reference to the millennial eon. Clearly the millennial eon is not endless, but has an end, so cannot be “for ever” let alone “for ever and ever”. There is no hint of final destiny suggested in Psalm 9:5.

tentmaker.org/ScholarsCorner.html**

[steve7150]

Clearly the context has nothing to due with eternity, it’s simply about the destruction of the enemy and the memory of them being wiped out either for the age or forever, but to find ECT in this is desperation on steroids.