Psalms 9

God's Power and Justice

¹I 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