Psalms 9
1 To the Chief Musician. On "Muthlabben." A Melody of David. I will praise Yahweh with all my heart, I will recount all thy wonderful doings:
Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David. I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will relate all thy wonders.
2 I will rejoice and exult in thee, I will praise in song, thy Name, O most High.
I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou most high.
3 When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished from before thee;
When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened and perish before thy face.
4 For thou hast executed my right and my cause, Thou hast sat on the throne, judging righteously:
For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.
5 Thou hast rebuked the nations, Thou hast destroyed the lawless one, Their name, hast thou wiped out, to times age-abiding and beyond.
Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished: thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
6 O enemy! complete are the desolations, evermore, —even cities, hast thou uprooted, The memory of, them, hath perished.
The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise.
7 But, Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, will sit, Ready for judgment, is his throne;
But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in judgment:
8 And, he, will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to peoples, in uprightness.
And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice.
9 Thus be Yahweh a refuge for the crushed one, a refuge for times of destitution:
And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.
10 Thus let them who know thy Name, put confidence in thee, that thou hast not forsaken the searchers for thee, O Yahweh.
And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.
11 Sing ye praise to Yahweh, who is seated in Zion, Tell among the peoples his doings.
Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among the Gentiles:
12 When he was making inquisition for blood, of them, had he remembrance, he forgat not the outcry of the oppressed.
For requiring their blood he hath remembered the: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.
13 Show me favour, O Yahweh! Behold my humiliation due to them who hate me, Lift me on high out of the gates of death;
Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies.
14 That I may recount all thy praises, In the gates of the daughter of Zion, may exult in thy salvation.
Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
15 The nations, have sunk, in the pit they had made, In the net which they had hidden, is caught their own foot.
I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they have prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.
16 To be known is Yahweh, by the sentence he hath executed, By the doing of his own hands, is he about to strike down the lawless one. [Resounding music. (Selah)
The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.
The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God. (Sheol h7585)
18 For, not always, shall the needy, be forgotten, —[nor, ] the hope of the oppressed, perish for ever.
For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.
19 Rise! Yahweh! let man not prevail, let the nations be judged before thee.
Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.
20 Appoint, O Yahweh, a terror for them, —Let the nations know [that] they are men. (Selah)
Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.
