Psalms9

¹To the choirmaster : according to Muth-labben . A Psalm of David . 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 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 . 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