Celebration of God’s Justice

¹I will thank the Lord with all my heart;

I will declare all your wondrous works.

²I will rejoice and boast about you;[#9:2 Ps 5:11]

I will sing about your name, Most High.

³When my enemies retreat,

they stumble and perish before you.

⁴For you have upheld my just cause;[#9:4 1Kg 8:45,49,59; 2Ch 6:35,39]

you are seated on your throne as a righteous judge.

⁵You have rebuked the nations:[#9:5 Is 17:3]

You have destroyed the wicked;

you have erased their name for ever and ever.

⁶The enemy has come to eternal ruin;

you have uprooted the cities,

and the very memory of them has perished.

⁷But the Lord sits enthroned for ever;[#9:7 Ps 29:10; 102:12; Lm 5:19]

he has established his throne for judgement.

⁸And he judges the world with righteousness;

he executes judgement on the nations with fairness.

⁹The Lord is a refuge for the persecuted,

a refuge in times of trouble.

¹⁰Those who know your name trust in you

because you have not abandoned

those who seek you, Lord .

¹¹Sing to the Lord , who dwells in Zion;[#9:11 Ps 76:2]

proclaim his deeds among the nations.

¹²For the one who seeks an accounting

for bloodshed remembers them;

he does not forget the cry of the oppressed.

¹³Be gracious to me, Lord ;

consider my affliction at the hands of those who hate me.

Lift me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴so that I may declare all your praises.

I will rejoice in your salvation

within the gates of Daughter Zion.

¹⁵The nations have fallen into the pit they made;

their foot is caught in the net they have concealed.

¹⁶The Lord has made himself known;

he has executed justice,

snaring the wicked

by the work of their hands. Higgaion . Selah

¹⁷The wicked will return to Sheol –[#9:17 Ps 31:17; 49:14; 55:15]

all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸For the needy will not always be forgotten;

the hope of the oppressed will not perish for ever.

¹⁹Rise up, Lord ! Do not let mere humans prevail;

let the nations be judged in your presence.

²⁰Put terror in them, Lord ;[#9:20 Ps 14:5]

let the nations know they are only humans. Selah