Psalm 9–10

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.

PSALM 10

Do Not Forget the Afflicted

Lamedh

¹¹Why ^ado You stand afar off, O Yahweh?

Why ^bdo You hide ²Yourself in times of distress?

²In his ^alofty pride the wicked ¹hotly pursues the afflicted;

²Let them be ^bcaught in the thoughts which they have devised.

³For the wicked ^aboasts of his ^bsoul’s desire,

And ¹the greedy man curses and ^cspurns Yahweh.

⁴The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, ^adoes not seek Him.

All his ¹thoughts are, “^bThere is no God.”

⁵His ways ^1aprosper at all times;

Your judgments are on high, ^bout of his sight;

As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

⁶He says in his heart, “^aI will not be shaken;

¹From generation to generation ^bI will not be in adversity.”

Pe

⁷His ^amouth is full of curses and deceit and ^boppression;

^cUnder his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

Ayin

⁸He sits in the ^1aplaces of the villages where one lies in wait;

In the hiding places he ^bkills the innocent;

His eyes ²stealthily watch for the ^3cunfortunate.

⁹He lies in wait in a hiding place as ^aa lion in his ¹lair;

He ^blies in wait to catch ^cthe afflicted;

He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his ^dnet.

¹⁰He ¹crouches, he ²bows down,

And the ³unfortunate fall ⁴by his mighty ones.

¹¹He ^asays in his heart, “God has forgotten;

He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”

Qoph

¹²Arise, O Yahweh; O God, ^alift up Your hand.

^bDo not forget the afflicted.

¹³Why has the wicked ^aspurned God?

He has said in his heart, “You will not require it.”

Resh

¹⁴You have seen it, for You have beheld ^amischief and vexation to ¹take it into Your hand.

The ^2bunfortunate commits himself to You;

You have been the ^chelper of the orphan.

Shin

^15aBreak the arm of the wicked and the evildoer,

^1bSeek out his wickedness until You find none.

¹⁶Yahweh is ^aKing forever and ever;

^bNations have perished from His land.

Tav

¹⁷O Yahweh, You have heard the ^adesire of the ¹humble;

You will ^bstrengthen their heart, ^cYou will cause Your ear to give heed

¹⁸To give justice to the ^aorphan and the ^boppressed,

So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause ^cterror.