Psalms 9:1 ←
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
Psalms 9:2 ←
I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
Psalms 9:3 ←
When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.
Psalms 9:4 ←
For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
Psalms 9:5 ←
You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Psalms 9:6 ←
The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
Psalms 9:7 ←
But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.
Psalms 9:8 ←
He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
Psalms 9:9 ←
Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.
Psalms 9:10 ←
Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Psalms 9:11 ←
Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.
Psalms 9:12 ←
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
Psalms 9:13 ←
Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,
Psalms 9:14 ←
that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
Psalms 9:15 ←
The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
Psalms 9:16 ←
Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
Psalms 9:17 ←
The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 9:18 ←
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
Psalms 9:19 ←
Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.
Psalms 9:20 ←
Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.
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