Psalm 9

₁ I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;

I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

₂I will be glad and exult in you;

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

₃When my enemies turn back,

they stumble and perish before your presence.

₄For you have maintained my just cause;

you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

₅You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;

you have blotted out their name forever and ever.

₆The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;

their cities you rooted out;

the very memory of them has perished.

₇But the Lord sits enthroned forever;

he has established his throne for justice,

₈and he judges the world with righteousness;

he judges the peoples with uprightness.

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 sits enthroned in Zion!

Tell among the peoples his deeds!

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 my affliction from those who hate me,

O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

₁₄that I may recount all your praises,

that in the gates of the daughter of Zion

I may rejoice in your salvation.

₁₅The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;

in the net that they hid, their own foot has 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 return to Sheol,

all the nations that forget God.

₁₈For the needy shall not always be forgotten,

and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

₁₉Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail;

let the nations be judged before you!

₂₀Put them in fear, O Lord!

Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah