Psalm 9- 1
- Psalm 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,
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- 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.
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- 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
- 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.
- [16] Or Meditation; possibly a musical notation
- [17] Hebrew Sheol