Psalms 9

Thanksgiving for God’s Justice.

For the music director; on ▼

▼Meaning of the Heb uncertain

Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.

1 I will give thanks to the Lord with all ^bmy heart;
I will ^ctell of all Your ▼

▼Or miracles

wonders.
2 I will rejoice and be ^ejubilant in You;
I will ^fsing praise to Your name, O ^gMost High.

3 When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and ^hperish before You.
4 For You have ⁱmaintained ▼

▼Lit my right and my cause

my just cause;
You have sat on the throne ▼

▼Or a righteous Judge

, ^ljudging righteously.
5 You have ^mrebuked the nations, You have eliminated the wicked;
You have ⁿwiped out their name forever and ever.
6 ▼

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

The enemy has come to an end in everlasting ruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very ^pmemory of them has perished.

7 But the ^qLord ▼

▼Or remains forever

sits as King forever;
He has established His ^sthrone for judgment,
8 And He will ^tjudge the world in righteousness;
He will execute judgment for the peoples fairly.
9 ▼

▼Or Let the Lord also be

The Lord will also be a ^vstronghold for the oppressed,
A stronghold in times of trouble;
10 And ▼

▼Or let those...name put

those who ^xknow Your name will put their trust in You,
For You, Lord, have not ^yabandoned those who seek You.

11 Sing praises to the Lord, who ^zdwells in Zion;
^aaDeclare His deeds among the peoples.
12 For ^abHe who ▼

▼I.e., avenges bloodshed

requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget ^adthe cry of the needy.
13 Be gracious to me, Lord;
See my oppression from those ^aewho hate me,
You who ^aflift me up from the gates of death,
14 So that I may tell of ^agall Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may ^ahrejoice in Your ▼

▼Or deliverance

salvation.
15 The nations have sunk down ^ajinto the pit which they have made;
In the ^aknet which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 The Lord has ^almade Himself known;
He has ^amexecuted judgment.
A wicked one is ensnared in the work of his own hands. ▼

▼Perhaps, resounding music or meditation

Higgaion Selah

17 The wicked will ▼

▼Or turn

, ^apreturn to ▼

▼I.e., the netherworld

Sheol,
All the nations who ^arforget God.
18 For the ^asneedy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the ^athope of the afflicted perish forever.
19 ^auArise, Lord, do not let mankind prevail;
Let the nations be ^avjudged before You.
20 Put them ^awin fear, Lord;
Let the nations know that they are ^axmerely human. Selah