Why does the Fifth Ode (Prayer of Isaiah) begin at verse 9 and end at verse 20?
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Ultimately because chapters and verse divisions are a relatively novel invention, and do not form a part of the original biblical text, Greek or otherwise; as such, what you call the first nine verses are neither first (because there is an entire ocean of text lying before them, corresponding to roughly a third of the whole book of Isaiah), nor nine, nor verses (because, along with chapters, they simply did not exist as such at the time the Odes were selected); thus, you are anachronistically imposing a far later structure or convention unto an otherwise undivided text, by thinking that there is even a chapter to begin with, and, not only that, but that it should start at a specified location, decided centuries, or even millennia, after their selection.
Furthermore, the main purpose of these pious liturgical hymns or prayers is to be said at certain specific times, such as evenings, or mornings, or afternoons, by the faithful; thus, that the aforementioned text starts with the words
(26:9) My soul yearns for you in the night;
in the morning my spirit longs for you.
makes perfect sense; similarly for its ending, which reads:
(26:20) enter your rooms
and shut the doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
which is pretty much what normal people do when they go to bed at night. Lending deep, mystical, and philosophical meanings to such common human activities is also a nice touch:
(26:19) your dead will live, Lord; their bodies will rise—
let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy—
your dew is like the dew of the morning
It is not entirely clear how adding any of the preceding or succeeding verses improves these perfectly chosen endpoints; if anything, the chapter's last verse seems more befitting of the next very chapter, which follows along similar lines, rather than matching the main theme of the selected portion:
(26:21) the Lord is coming out of his dwelling
to punish the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will disclose the blood shed on it;
the earth will conceal its slain no longer.
(27:1) the Lord will punish with his sword—
(...) he will slay the monster of the sea.
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