Psalm 8:1–9:20

¹O Yahweh, our Lord,

How majestic is Your name in all the earth,

Who ^1adisplays Your splendor above the heavens!

^2aFrom the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have established ^1bstrength

Because of Your adversaries,

To make ^cthe enemy and the revengeful cease.

³When I ^asee ^bYour heavens, the work of Your fingers,

The ^cmoon and the stars, which You have established;

^4aWhat is man that You remember him,

And the son of man that You care for him?

⁵Yet You have made him a ^alittle lower than the ¹angels,

And ^bYou crown him with ^cglory and majesty!

⁶You make him to ^arule over the works of Your hands;

You have ^bput all things under his feet,

⁷All sheep and oxen,

And also the animals of the field,

⁸The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,

Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

^9aO Yahweh, our Lord,

How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

PSALM 9

Yahweh Will Judge the World in Righteousness

For the choir director. ^†Almuth-labben. A Psalm of David.

Aleph

¹¹I will give thanks to Yahweh with all ^amy heart;

I will ^brecount all Your ²wondrous deeds.

Aleph

²I will be glad and ^aexult in You;

I will ^bsing praise to Your name, O ^cMost High.

Beth

³When my enemies turn back,

They stumble and ^aperish before You.

⁴For You have ^amaintained my ¹justice and my cause;

You have sat on the throne ^2bjudging righteously.

Gimel

⁵You have ^arebuked the nations, You have made the wicked perish;

You have ^bblotted out their name forever and ever.

He

⁶¹The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ²ruins,

And You have uprooted the cities;

The very ^amemory of them has perished.

Vav

⁷But ^aYahweh ¹abides forever;

He has established His ^bthrone for judgment,

Vav

⁸And He will ^ajudge the world in righteousness;

He will render justice for the peoples with equity.

Vav

⁹¹Yahweh also will be a ^astronghold for the oppressed,

A stronghold in times of ²distress;

Vav

¹⁰And ¹those who ^aknow Your name will put their trust in You,

For You, O Yahweh, have not ^bforsaken those who seek You.

Zayin

¹¹Sing praises to Yahweh, who ^aabides in Zion;

^bDeclare among the peoples His acts.

¹²For ^aHe who ¹requires blood remembers them;

He does not forget ^bthe cry of the afflicted.

Heth

¹³Be gracious to me, O Yahweh;

See my affliction from those ^awho hate me,

You who ^blift me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴That I may recount ^aall Your praises,

That in the gates of the daughter of Zion

I may ^brejoice in Your ¹salvation.

Teth

¹⁵The nations have sunk down ^ain the pit which they have made;

In the ^bnet which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

¹⁶Yahweh has ^amade Himself known;

He has ^bexecuted judgment.

In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. ¹Higgaion ²Selah.

Yodh

¹⁷The wicked will ^1areturn to Sheol,

Even all the nations who ^bforget God.

Kaph

¹⁸For the ^aneedy will not always be forgotten,

Nor the ^bhope of the afflicted perish forever.

^19aArise, O Yahweh, do not let man prevail;

Let the nations be ^bjudged before You.

²⁰Put them ^ain fear, O Yahweh;

Let the nations know that they are ^bbut men. Selah.