Psalms
Psalms 9
For the end, concerning the secrets of the son. A psalm by David.
1 I will give thanks to you, Lord, with my whole heart. I will recount all your wonderful works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will make music to your name, Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back, they will weaken and perish before you.
4 You have upheld my judgment and my cause. You sat on the throne, judging with righteousness.
5 You rebuked the nations, and the ungodly person perished. You wiped out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemy’s swords have completely failed, and you tore down cities. Their memory perished with a crash.
7 But the Lord remains forever. He prepared his throne for judgment,
8 and he will judge the world with righteousness and judge peoples with uprightness.
9 The Lord became a refuge for the poor, a helper in times of need and affliction.
10 Let those who know your name trust in you, because you, Lord, have not abandoned those who seek you.
11 Make music to the Lord who lives in Zion; report his practices among the nations.
12 For when he investigated their bloodshed, he remembered them; he did not forget the cry of the poor.
13 Have mercy on me, Lord. See the humiliation I suffer from my enemies, you who lift me from the gates of death,
14 so that I may proclaim all your praises in the gates of daughter Zion. I will rejoice in your rescue.
15 The nations were caught in the destruction they made; their foot was seized in the very trap they hid.
16 The Lord is known by carrying out judgments. The sinner was caught in the works of his own hands. A song of Pause.
17 May sinners be turned back into Hades—all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy will not be forgotten forever, and the endurance of the poor will not perish forever.
19 Rise, Lord! Do not let a human being prevail. May the nations be judged before you.
20 Appoint a lawgiver over them, Lord. Let the nations know that they are human. Pause.