Psalm 8:1–9:20

¹O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth! 

Your glory is sung above the heavens. 

²From the mouths of little children and infants, 

you have built a fortress against your opponents 

to silence the enemy and the avenger. 

³When I look at your heavens, 

the creation of your fingers, 

the moon and the stars that you have set in place— 

⁴what is a mortal that you remember him 

or the Son of Man that you take care of him? 

⁵You have made him a little lower than yourself. 

You have crowned him with glory and honor. 

⁶You have made him rule what your hands created. 

You have put everything under his control: 

⁷all the sheep and cattle, the wild animals, 

⁸the birds, the fish, 

whatever swims in the currents of the seas. 

⁹O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth! 

Psalm 9

For the choir director; according to muth labben;^aa psalm by David.^b

¹I will give ⸤you⸥ thanks, O Lord, with all my heart. 

I will tell about all the miracles you have done. 

²I will find joy and be glad about you. 

I will make music to praise your name, O Most High. 

³When my enemies retreat, they will stumble and die in your presence. 

⁴You have defended my just cause: 

You sat down on your throne as a fair judge. 

⁵You condemned nations. 

You destroyed wicked people. 

You wiped out their names forever and ever. 

⁶The enemy is finished—in ruins forever. 

You have uprooted their cities. 

Even the memory of them has faded. 

⁷Yet, the Lord is enthroned forever. 

He has set up his throne for judgment. 

⁸He alone judges the world with righteousness. 

He judges ⸤its⸥ people fairly. 

⁹The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, 

a stronghold in times of trouble. 

¹⁰Those who know your name trust you, O Lord, 

because you have never deserted those who seek your help. 

¹¹Make music to praise the Lord, who is enthroned in Zion. 

Announce to the nations what he has done. 

¹²The one who avenges murder has remembered oppressed people. 

He has never forgotten their cries. 

¹³Have pity on me, O Lord. 

Look at what I suffer because of those who hate me. 

You take me away from the gates of death 

¹⁴so that I may recite your praises one by one 

in the gates of Zion 

and find joy in your salvation. 

¹⁵The nations have sunk into the pit they have made. 

Their feet are caught in the net they have hidden ⸤to trap others⸥. 

¹⁶The Lord is known by the judgment he has carried out. 

The wicked person is trapped 

by the work of his own hands. 

Higgaion Selah 

¹⁷Wicked people, all the nations who forget God, 

will return to the grave. 

¹⁸Needy people will not always be forgotten. 

Nor will the hope of oppressed people be lost forever. 

¹⁹Arise, O Lord. 

Do not let mortals gain any power. 

Let the nations be judged in your presence. 

²⁰Strike them with terror, O Lord. 

Let the nations know that they are ⸤only⸥ mortal. 

Selah