Psalms 9

A psalm of thanksgiving for God’s justice.

For the Chief Musician; set to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.

¹I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvellous works.

²I will be glad and exult in thee; I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.

³When mine enemies turn back, They stumble and perish at thy presence.

⁴For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou sittest in the throne judging righteously.

⁵Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

⁶The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.

⁷But Jehovah sitteth [as king] for ever: He hath prepared his throne for judgment;

⁸And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

⁹Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble;

¹⁰And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

¹¹Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion: Declare among the people his doings.

¹²For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

¹³Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;

¹⁴That I may show forth all thy praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion I will rejoice in thy salvation.

¹⁵The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

¹⁶Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah

¹⁷The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, Nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.

¹⁹Arise, O Jehovah; let not man prevail: Let the nations be judged in thy sight.

²⁰Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah

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