Psalms 9

Celebration of God’s Justice

¹I will thank Yahweh with all my heart;

I will declare all Your wonderful works.

²I will rejoice and boast about You;[#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;[#Lit my justice and my cause; #1Kg 8:45,49,59; 2Ch 6:35,39]

You are seated on Your throne as a righteous judge.

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

You have destroyed the wicked;

You have erased their name forever 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 forever;[#Ps 29:10; 102:12; Lm 5:19]

He has established His throne for judgment.

⁸He judges the world with righteousness;

He executes judgment on the nations with fairness.

⁹The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed,

a refuge in times of trouble.

¹⁰Those who know Your name trust in You

because You have not abandoned

those who seek You, Yahweh.

¹¹Sing to the Lord , who dwells in Zion;[#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 afflicted.

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 revealed Himself;

He has executed justice,

striking down the wicked

by the work of their hands. Higgaion . Selah

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

all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸For the oppressed will not always be forgotten;

the hope of the afflicted will not perish forever.

¹⁹Rise up, Lord ! Do not let man prevail;

let the nations be judged in Your presence.

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

let the nations know they are only men. Selah