Psalm 9

For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm by David.

¹I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart.

I will tell of all your marvellous works.

²I will be glad and rejoice in you.

I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

³When my enemies turn back,

they stumble and perish in your presence.

⁴For you have maintained my just cause.

You sit on the throne judging righteously.

⁵You have rebuked the nations.

You have destroyed the wicked.

You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

⁶The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin.

The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

⁷But the LORD reigns forever.

He has prepared his throne for judgement.

⁸He will judge the world in righteousness.

He will administer judgement to the peoples in uprightness.

⁹The LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed;

a high tower in times of trouble.

¹⁰Those who know your name will put their trust in you,

for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion,

and declare amongst the people what he has done.

¹²For he who avenges blood remembers them.

He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³Have mercy on me, LORD.

See my affliction by those who hate me,

and lift me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴that I may show all of your praise.

I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

¹⁵The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made.

In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

¹⁶The LORD has made himself known.

He has executed judgement.

The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.

¹⁷The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol,

even all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not always be forgotten,

nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

¹⁹Arise, LORD! Don’t let man prevail.

Let the nations be judged in your sight.

²⁰Put them in fear, LORD.

Let the nations know that they are only men.