Delighting in God

¹I will worship you, Yahweh , with extended hands

as my whole heart erupts with praise!

I will tell everyone everywhere about your wonderful works!

²I will be glad and shout in triumph.

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

Deliverance

³For when you appear, I worship

you while my enemies run in retreat.

They stumble and perish before your presence.

⁴For you have stood up for my cause

and vindicated me when I needed you the most .

From your righteous throne you have given me justice.

Divine Judgment

⁵With a blast of your rebuke, nations are destroyed.

You obliterated their names forever and ever.

⁶The Lord thundered and our enemies have been cut off,

vanished in everlasting ruins.

All their cities have been destroyed—

even the memory of them has been erased.

⁷But Yahweh , our mighty God , reigns forever!

He sits enthroned as King ready to render his verdicts

and judge all with righteousness.

⁸He will issue his decrees of judgment,

deciding what is right for the entire world,

dispensing justice to all.

⁹All who are oppressed may come to Yahweh as a high

shelter in the time of trouble, a perfect hiding place.

¹⁰For everyone who knows your wonderful name

keeps putting their trust in you.

They can count on you for help no matter what.

O Lord, you will never, no never, neglect those

who come to you.

¹¹Listen, everyone! Sing out your praises to the God

who rules in Zion!

Tell the world about all the miracles he has done!

¹²He tracks down killers and avenges bloodshed,

but he will never forget the ones forgotten by others,

hearing every one of their cries for justice.

Daughter of Zion

¹³So now, O Lord, don’t forget me.

Have mercy on me.

Take note of how I’ve been humiliated

at the hands of those who hate me.

You are the one who can snatch me away from the gates of death.

¹⁴Then I will sing your praises as I pass through the gates

of the Daughter of Zion, rejoicing in your deliverance!

¹⁵For the nations get trapped

in the very snares they set for others.

The hidden trap they set for the weak

has snapped shut upon themselves!

¹⁶Yahweh is famous for his justice.

While the wicked are digging a pit for others,

they are actually setting the terms for their own judgment.

They will fall into their own pit.

Destruction of the Wicked

¹⁷Don’t forget this : all the wicked will one day

fall into the darkness of death’s domain,

including the nations that forget God and reject his ways.

¹⁸He will not forget the needs of the poor.

One day the needy will be remembered,

and their hopes will not be forever dashed in disappointment.

¹⁹Yahweh , it’s time to arise and judge

the nations who defy you.

Don’t let rebellious men triumph.

²⁰Make them tremble in fear before your presence.

Place a lawgiver over them.

Make them know that they are only puny, frail humans

who must give account to you!