There are four participants/characters in Psalm 92:
Profile List
| YHWH
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| "Most High" (v. 2)
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| "Our God" (v. 14)
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| "My rock" (v. 16)
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| [YHWH's] Enemies
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| [The psalmist's] Enemies
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| "Wicked people" (vv. 8, 12)
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| "Evildoers" (vv. 8, 10)
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| "Those rising up against me" (v. 12)
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| Stupid people
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| Fools
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Profile Notes
- Psalmist: someone who has been made to rejoice by YHWH's work (v. 5) and received promises of victory over his enemies (vv. 11-12). Furthermore, he is the relational proprietor of "my rock" (v. 16) and shares in "our God" (v. 14).
- The righteous are explicitly introduced as a class term in the topic shift in v. 13, yet subtly shift to a plural reference from v. 14 onwards. They have also been judged as the addressee from then on, with the intended perlocutionary effect that they will trust in the contents of v. 16: that YHWH is fair and just.
- The enemies are explicitly mentioned as YHWH's enemies in v. 10 and probably also as the psalmist's in v. 12 (though see the lexical notes on שׁוּרָי). In parallel with "evildoers" in v. 10, this is also true of their identification as both "wicked" and "evildoers" in v. 8 and "those rising up against me" in v. 12. Though not identical, the fools mentioned in v. 7 are not aware of their coming downfall, despite their ephemeral prosperity, so are understood to form part of this participant set. As in the case of the righteous above, this participant set is first introduced as a class term in the singular (v. 7), before shifting to plural reference in vv. 8, 10, 12.