A Psalm of David

Verse 1

Lord I'll Thee praise with all my heart, thy wonders all proclaim.

Verse 2

O Thou most high, in Thee I'll joy, exult, and sing thy name.

Verse 3

My foes in turning backward fall, and perish at thy sight; For thou maintainest my just cause, enthroned thou judgest right.

Verse 4

The heathen thou rebuked hast, the wicked overthrown;

Verse 5

Thou blottest out their name, that they may never more be known.

Verse 6

Thy desolations, O thou foe, are ended utterly; Who many cities hast destroyed, and made their memory die.

Verse 7

But now Jehovah ever shall endure and ever reign; His throne He hath established just judgment to maintain.

Verse 8

Yea, he the universal world shall judge in righteousness; And to all people judgment give in perfect uprightness.

Verse 9

A refuge high for the oppressed Jehovah will become; He is to them a refuge safe in seasons troublesome.

Verse 10

And they who duly know thy name, in Thee their trust will place; Because Thou, Lord, hast never left the seekers of thy face.

Verse 11

O sing ye praises to the LORD, who does in Zion dwell; His wondrous doings all abroad among his people tell.

Verse 12

When He inquireth after blood he minds them carefully: Of those who meek and humble are he ne'er forgets the cry.

Verse 13

Lord, pity me, and weigh my grief which I from foes sustain; And from the opening gates of death O raise me up again.

Verse 14

That I in Zion's daughter's gates may show forth all thy praise: And my triumphant shouts of joy in thy salvation, raise.

Verse 15

The heathen people are sunk down into the pit they made; their foot is taken in the net which secretly they laid.

Verse 16

By judgments which He executes more known Jehovah is; Ill men are caught in their own snares; deeply consider this. (Selah.)

Verse 17

Those who continue wicked, shall be turned down to hell; Where all the nations of the earth who God forget, shall dwell.

Verse 18

Thy needy, though distressed a while, shall never be forgot; The expectations of thy poor, deferred, yet perish not.

Verse 19

O let not wretched man prevail; but O Jehovah rise; The heathen people in thy fight let judged be likewise.

Verse 20

O thou Jehovah, strike them all with trembling fear; and then Thou wilt the nations make to know, they are but wretched men. (Selah.)