Psalms 9

1 TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] ON “DEATH OF THE SON.” A PSALM OF DAVID. I confess, O YHWH, with all my heart, I recount all Your wonders,

2 I rejoice and exult in You, I praise Your Name, O Most High.

3 In my enemies turning backward, They stumble and perish from Your face.

4 For You have done my judgment and my right. You have sat on a throne, Judging [with] righteousness.

5 You have rebuked nations, You have destroyed the wicked, You have blotted out their name for all time and forever.

6 The enemy—[your] destructions have been completed forever, As for cities you have plucked up, Their memorial has perished with them.

7 And YHWH abides for all time, He is preparing His throne for judgment.

8 And He judges the world in righteousness, He judges the peoples in uprightness.

9 And YHWH is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

10 They trust in You who know Your Name, For You have not forsaken those seeking You, O YHWH.

11 Sing praise to YHWH, inhabiting Zion, Declare His acts among the peoples,

12 For He who is seeking for blood Has remembered them, He has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

13 Favor me, O YHWH, See my affliction by those hating me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,

14 So that I recount all Your praise, In the gates of the daughter of Zion. I rejoice on Your salvation.

15 Nations have sunk in a pit they made, Their foot has been captured in a net that they hid.

16 YHWH has been known, He has done judgment; By a work of his hands The wicked has been snared. (Meditation, Selah)

17 The wicked turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God. (Sheol h7585)

18 For the needy is not forgotten forever, [Nor] the hope of the humble lost for all time.

19 Rise, O YHWH, do not let man be strong, Let nations be judged before Your face.

20 Appoint them to fear, O YHWH, Let nations know they [are] men! (Selah)