Psalms 9
1 I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works.
For the leader;’almuth labben. A psalm of David. With all my heart I will praise the Lord, all your wonders I will rehearse.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O you most High.
I will rejoice and exult in you, singing praise to your name, Most High;
3 When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.
because backward my foes were turned, they stumbled and perished before you.
4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right.
My right and my claim you have upheld, you did sit on the throne as a fair judge,
5 You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name for ever and ever.
rebuking the nations, destroying the wicked, and blotting their name out forever and ever.
6 O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
The foe is vanished, ruined forever, their cities destroyed, their memory perished.
7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.
See! The Lord is seated forever on the throne he established for judgment,
8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
ruling the world with justice, and judging the nations with equity.
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
So the Lord proves a haven to the oppressed, a haven in times of trouble.
10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.
Well may they trust you who know your name, for those who seek you, you never abandon.
11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwells in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
Sing praise to the Lord, whose home is in Zion, declare his deeds among the nations.
12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.
As avenger of blood, he keeps them in mind, he does not forget the cry of the wretched.
13 Have mercy on me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:
Show me favour, Lord, see how my foes afflict me, lift me up from the gates of death;
14 That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.
so I may, in your help exulting, tell forth your praise at the gates of Zion.
15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
The nations are sunk in the pit which they made, in the net that they hid, their own foot is entangled.
16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. (Higgaion, Selah)
The Lord is revealed in the judgment he wrought, the wicked are snared in their own handiwork. (Selah)
Let the wicked depart to Sheol, all the nations that live forgetful of God. (Sheol h7585)
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
For the needy will not be always forgotten, nor the hope of the helpless be lost forever.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in your sight.
Arise, Lord; don’t let them triumph: before your face let the nations be judged.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. (Selah)
Strike them with fear, Lord: show the nations how frail they are. (Selah)
