Psalm 9

For the Chief Musician; set to Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.

¹I will give thanks unto the LORD with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvelous works.

²I will be glad and exult in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.

³When mine enemies turn back, they stumble and perish at thy presence.

⁴For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging righteously.

⁵Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

⁶The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; and the cities which thou hast overthrown, their very memorial is perished.

⁷But the LORD sitteth as kingfor ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

⁸And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

⁹The LORD also will be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble;

¹⁰And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

¹¹Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

¹²For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

¹³Have mercy upon me, O LORD; behold my affliction which I sufferof them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;

¹⁴That I may shew forth all thy praise: in the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in thy salvation.

¹⁵The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

¹⁶The LORD hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.

¹⁷The wicked shall return to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.

¹⁹Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in thy sight.

²⁰Put them in fear, O LORD: let the nations know themselves to be but men.