Psalms 9

¹Unto the end. For the secrets of the Son. A Psalm of David.

²I will confess to you, Lord, with my whole heart. I will recount all your wonders.

³I will rejoice and exult in you. I will sing a psalm to your name, O Most High.

⁴For my enemy will be turned back. They will be weakened and perish before your face.

⁵For you have accomplished my judgment and my cause. You have sat upon the throne that judges justice.

⁶You have rebuked the Gentiles, and the impious one has perished. You have deleted their name in eternity and for all generations.

⁷The spears of the enemy have failed in the end, and their cities, you have destroyed. Their memory has perished with a loud noise.

⁸But the Lord remains in eternity. He has prepared his throne in judgment.

⁹And he will judge the whole world in equity. He will judge the people in justice.

¹⁰And the Lord has become a refuge for the poor, a helper in opportunity, in tribulation.

¹¹And may they hope in you, who know your name. For you have not abandoned those seeking you, Lord.

¹²Sing a psalm to the Lord, who dwells in Zion. Announce his study among the Gentiles.

¹³Because of those who yearned for their blood, he has remembered them. He has not forgotten the cry of the poor.

¹⁴Have mercy on me, Lord. See my humiliation from my enemies.

¹⁵You lift me up from the gates of death, so that I may announce all your praises at the gates of the daughter of Zion.

¹⁶I will exult in your salvation. The Gentiles have become trapped in the ruin that they made. Their foot has been caught in the same snare that they themselves had hidden.

¹⁷The Lord will be recognized when making judgments. The sinner has been caught in the works of his own hands. Pause

¹⁸The sinners will be turned into Hell: all the Gentiles who have forgotten God.

¹⁹For the poor will not be forgotten in the end. The patience of the poor will not perish in the end.

²⁰Rise up, Lord: do not let man be strengthened. Let the Gentiles be judged in your sight.

²¹O Lord, establish a lawgiver over them, so that the Gentiles may know that they are only men. Pause

²²So then, why, O Lord, have you withdrawn far away? Why have you overlooked us in opportunity, in tribulation?

²³While the impious is arrogant, the poor is enflamed. They are held by the counsels that they devise.

²⁴For the sinner is praised by the desires of his soul, and the iniquitous is blessed.

²⁵The sinner has provoked the Lord; according to the multitude of his wrath, he will not seek him.

²⁶God is not before his sight. His ways are stained at all times. Your judgments are removed from his face. He will be master of all his enemies.

²⁷For he has said in his heart, “I will not be disturbed: from generation to generation without evil.”

²⁸His mouth is full of curses, and bitterness, and deceit. Under his tongue are hardship and sorrow.

²⁹He sits in ambush, with resources in hidden places, so that he may execute the innocent.

³⁰His eyes catch sight of the poor. He lies in ambush, in hiding like a lion in his den. He lies in ambush, so that he may seize the poor, to seize the poor as he draws him in.

³¹With his snare, he will bring him down. He will crouch down and pounce, when he has power over the poor.

³²For he has said in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has turned away his face, lest he see to the end.”

³³O Lord God, rise up. Let your hand be exalted. Do not forget the poor.

³⁴How has the impious one provoked God? For he has said in his heart, “He will not inquire.”

³⁵You do see, for you examine hardship and sorrow, so that you may deliver them into your hands. The poor one has been abandoned to you. You will be a helper to the orphan.

³⁶Break the arm of the sinner and the malicious. His sin will be sought, and it will not be found.

³⁷The Lord shall reign in eternity, even forever and ever. You will perish the Gentiles from his land.

³⁸The Lord has heeded the desire of the poor. Your ear has listened to the preparation of their heart,

³⁹so as to judge for the orphan and the humble, so that man may no longer presume to magnify himself upon the earth.

Psalms 9

¹I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

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

³When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

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

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

⁶O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

⁷But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

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

⁹The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge 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.

¹²When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

¹³Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of 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 heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

¹⁶The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

¹⁷The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

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

²⁰Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.