Psalms 9

Psalm 9

God’s Power and Justice

1I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;[#Ps 26.7; 86.12; #9.1 Psalms 9—10 were originally one psalm, as in the Greek and Latin traditions. In Hebrew, Psalms 9—10 formed an acrostic.]

I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

2I will be glad and exult in you;[#Ps 5.11; 83.18]

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

3When my enemies turned back,[#Ps 27.2; 56.9]

they stumbled and perished before you.

4For you have maintained my just cause;[#Ps 47.8; 67.4; 140.12; 1 Pet 2.23]

you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.

5You have rebuked the nations; you have destroyed the wicked;[#Deut 9.14]

you have blotted out their name forever and ever.

6The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;[#Ps 34.16; 40.15]

their cities you have rooted out;

the very memory of them has perished.

7But the Lord sits enthroned forever;[#Ps 29.10; 89.14]

he has established his throne for judgment.

8He judges the world with righteousness;[#Ps 96.13]

he judges the peoples with equity.

9The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,[#Ps 18.2; 32.7; 37.39]

a stronghold in times of trouble.

10And those who know your name put their trust in you,[#Ps 37.28; 91.14]

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

11Sing praises to the Lord , who dwells in Zion.[#Ps 76.2; 105.1]

Declare his deeds among the peoples.

12For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;[#v 18 ; Gen 9.5]

he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

13Be gracious to me, O Lord .[#Ps 25.19; 30.3, 10; 38.19]

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[#Ps 13.5; 87.2; 106.2]

and, in the gates of daughter Zion,

rejoice in your deliverance.

15The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;[#Ps 7.15; 35.8]

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

16The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;[#v 4 ; Isa 64.2]

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

17The wicked shall depart to Sheol,[#Job 8.13; Ps 49.14; 50.22]

all the nations that forget God.

18For the needy shall not always be forgotten,[#v 12 ; Ps 74.19]

nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

19Rise up, O Lord ! Do not let mortals prevail;[#2 Chr 14.11; Ps 3.7; 110.6]

let the nations be judged before you.

20Put them in fear, O Lord ;[#Ps 83.15; Isa 31.3]

let the nations know that they are only human. Selah

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