Psalm 9

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

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

¹I 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 before 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. Higgaion. 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