Psalm 9–10

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

9¹ To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben.² A Psalm of David.

¹I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;

I will recount all of your ^gwonderful deeds.

²I will be glad and ^hexult in you;

I will ⁱsing praise to your name, ^jO Most High.

³When my enemies turn back,

they stumble and perish before³ your presence.

⁴For you have ^kmaintained my just cause;

you have ^lsat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

⁵You have ^mrebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;

you have ⁿblotted out their name forever and ever.

⁶The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;

their cities you rooted out;

the very memory of them has perished.

⁷But the Lord sits enthroned forever;

he has established his throne for justice,

⁸and he ^ojudges the world with righteousness;

he ^pjudges the peoples with uprightness.

⁹The Lord is ^qa stronghold for ^rthe oppressed,

a stronghold in ^stimes of trouble.

¹⁰And those who ^tknow your name put their trust in you,

for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹Sing praises to the Lord, who ^usits enthroned in Zion!

Tell among the peoples his ^vdeeds!

¹²For he who ^wavenges blood is mindful of them;

he ^xdoes not forget the cry of the afflicted.

^13yBe gracious to me, O Lord!

See my affliction from those who hate me,

O you who lift me up from ^zthe gates of death,

¹⁴that I may recount all your praises,

that in the gates of ^athe daughter of Zion

I may ^brejoice in your salvation.

¹⁵The nations have sunk in ^cthe pit that they made;

in ^dthe net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.

¹⁶The Lord has made himself ^eknown; he has executed judgment;

the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.⁴ Selah

¹⁷The wicked shall ^freturn to Sheol,

all the nations that ^gforget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not always be forgotten,

and ^hthe hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

¹⁹ⁱArise, O Lord! Let not ^jman prevail;

let the nations be judged before you!

²⁰Put them in fear, O Lord!

Let the nations know that they are but ^jmen! Selah

Why Do You Hide Yourself?

10Why, O Lord, do you stand ^kfar away?

Why ^ldo you hide yourself in ^mtimes of trouble?

²In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;

let them ⁿbe caught in the schemes that they have devised.

³For the wicked ^oboasts of the desires of his soul,

and the one greedy for gain ^pcurses¹ and ^qrenounces the Lord.

⁴In the pride of his face² the wicked does not ^qseek him;³

all his thoughts are, ^r“There is no God.”

⁵His ways prosper at all times;

your judgments are on high, ^sout of his sight;

as for all his foes, he ^tpuffs at them.

⁶He ^usays in his heart, “I shall not be moved;

throughout all generations I ^vshall not meet adversity.”

^7wHis mouth is filled with cursing and ^xdeceit and ^yoppression;

^zunder his tongue are ^amischief and ^biniquity.

⁸He sits in ambush in the villages;

in ^chiding places he murders the innocent.

His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

⁹he lurks in ambush like ^da lion in his ^ethicket;

he ^flurks that he may seize the poor;

he seizes the poor when he draws him into his ^gnet.

¹⁰The helpless are crushed, sink down,

and fall by his might.

¹¹He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,

he has ^hhidden his face, he ⁱwill never see it.”

^12jArise, O Lord; O God, ^klift up your hand;

^lforget not the afflicted.

¹³Why does the wicked ^mrenounce God

and say in his heart, “You will not ⁿcall to account”?

¹⁴But you do see, for you ^onote mischief and vexation,

that you may take it into your hands;

to you the helpless ^pcommits himself;

you have been ^qthe helper of the fatherless.

^15rBreak the arm of the wicked and evildoer;

^scall his wickedness to account till you find none.

^16tThe Lord is king forever and ever;

the ^unations perish from his land.

¹⁷O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;

you will ^vstrengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

¹⁸to ^wdo justice to the fatherless and ^xthe oppressed,

so that ^yman who is of the earth may strike terror no more.