Psalm 9

Psalm 9

God’s Power and Justice

To the leader: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.

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

I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.^*

²I will be glad and exult in you;

I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.^*

³When my enemies turned back,

they stumbled and perished before you.^*

⁴For you have maintained my just cause;

you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.^*

⁵You have rebuked the nations; you have destroyed the wicked;

you have blotted out their name forever and ever.^*

⁶The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;

their cities you have rooted out;

the very memory of them has perished.^*

⁷But the Lord sits enthroned forever;

he has established his throne for judgment.^*

⁸He judges the world with righteousness;

he judges the peoples with equity.^*

⁹The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,

a stronghold in times of trouble.^*

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

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

¹¹Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion.

Declare his deeds among the peoples.^*

¹²For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;

he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.^*

¹³Be gracious to me, O Lord.

See what I suffer from those who hate me;

you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death,^*

¹⁴so that I may recount all your praises

and, in the gates of daughter Zion,

rejoice in your deliverance.^*

¹⁵The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;

in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.^*

¹⁶The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;

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

¹⁷The wicked shall depart to Sheol,

all the nations that forget God.^*

¹⁸For the needy shall not always be forgotten,

nor the hope of the poor perish forever.^*

¹⁹Rise up, O Lord! Do not let mortals prevail;

let the nations be judged before you.^*

²⁰Put them in fear, O Lord;

let the nations know that they are only human.   Selah^*