PSALMS
CHAPTER 9

For the director of music. To the tune of "The Death of the Son." A psalm of David.

^{1 [1]} I will praise you, O LORD , with all my heart;
I will tell of all your wonders.
² I will be glad and rejoice in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

³ My enemies turn back;
they stumble and perish before you.
⁴ For you have upheld my right and my cause;
you have sat on your throne, judging righteously.
⁵ You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;
you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
⁶ Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy,
you have uprooted their cities;
even the memory of them has perished.

⁷ The LORD reigns forever;
he has established his throne for judgment.
⁸ He will judge the world in righteousness;
he will govern the peoples with justice.
⁹ The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
¹⁰ Those who know your name will trust in you,
for you, LORD , have never forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹ Sing praises to the LORD , enthroned in Zion;
proclaim among the nations what he has done.
¹² For he who avenges blood remembers;
he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

¹³ O LORD , see how my enemies persecute me!
Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴ that I may declare your praises
in the gates of the Daughter of Zion
and there rejoice in your salvation.
¹⁵ The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;
their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
¹⁶ The LORD is known by his justice;
the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.
Higgaion. ^[2] Selah
¹⁷ The wicked return to the grave, ^[3]
all the nations that forget God.
¹⁸ But the needy will not always be forgotten,
nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.

¹⁹ Arise, O LORD , let not man triumph;
let the nations be judged in your presence.
²⁰ Strike them with terror, O LORD ;
let the nations know they are but men.
Selah

Footnotes

1. Psalms 9 and 10 may have been originally a single acrostic poem, the stanzas of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.
2. 9:16 Or Meditation ; possibly a musical notation
3. 9:17 Hebrew Sheol

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