Psalms 9

Psalm 9

Yahweh Will Judge the World in Righteousness

For the choir director. ▼

▼Or According to the Death of the Son; possibly a title for a tune

Almuth-labben. A Psalm of David.

Aleph

1 ▼

▼ This poem loosely follows an acrostic pattern

I will give thanks to Yahweh with all my heart;
I will recount all Your ▼

▼Or miracles

wondrous deeds.
Aleph

2I will be glad and exult in You;
I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
Beth

3When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish before You.
4For You have maintained my ▼

▼Or right

justice and my cause;
You have sat on the throne ▼

▼Or a righteous Judge

judging righteously.
Gimel

5You have rebuked the nations, You have made the wicked perish;
You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
He

6 ▼

▼ Or O enemy, desolations are finished forever; And their cities You have plucked up

The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ▼

▼Or waste places

ruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very memory of them has perished.
Vav

7But Yahweh ▼

▼Or sits as king

abides forever;
He has established His throne for judgment,
Vav

8And He will judge the world in righteousness;
He will render justice for the peoples with equity.
Vav

9 ▼

▼ Or Let Yahweh also be

Yahweh also will be a stronghold for the oppressed,
A stronghold in times of ▼

▼Or trouble

distress;
Vav

10And ▼

▼Or let those...name put

those who know Your name will put their trust in You,
For You, O Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek You.
Zayin

11Sing praises to Yahweh, who abides in Zion;
Declare among the peoples His acts.
12For He who ▼

▼Avenges bloodshed

requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
Heth

13Be gracious to me, O Yahweh;
See my affliction from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,
14That I may recount all Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may rejoice in Your ▼

▼Or deliverance

salvation.
Teth

15The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16Yahweh has made Himself known;
He has executed judgment.
In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. ▼

▼Possibly resounding music or meditation

Higgaion ▼

▼Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude

Selah.
Yodh

17The wicked will ▼

▼Or turn

return to Sheol,
Even all the nations who forget God.
Kaph

18For the needy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.
19Arise, O Yahweh, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged before You.
20Put them in fear, O Yahweh;
Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.