Psalms 9
I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds
▼▼Psalms 9 and 10 together follow an acrostic pattern, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they form one psalm To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. ▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term A Psalm of David.
1 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;I will recount all of your cwonderful deeds.
2I will be glad and dexult in you;
I will esing praise to your name, fO Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before ▼
▼Or because of
your presence.4For you have hmaintained my just cause;
you have isat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
5 You have jrebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have kblotted out their name forever and ever.
6The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.
7 But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
8and he ljudges the world with righteousness;
he mjudges the peoples with uprightness.
9 The Lord is na stronghold for othe oppressed,
a stronghold in ptimes of trouble.
10And those who qknow your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing praises to the Lord, who rsits enthroned in Zion!
Tell among the peoples his sdeeds!
12For he who tavenges blood is mindful of them;
he udoes not forget the cry of the afflicted.
13 vBe gracious to me, O Lord!
See my affliction from those who hate me,
O you who lift me up from wthe gates of death,
14that I may recount all your praises,
that in the gates of xthe daughter of Zion
I may yrejoice in your salvation.
15 The nations have sunk in zthe pit that they made;
in aathe net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16The Lord has made himself abknown; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. ▼
▼Probably a musical or liturgical term
Selah 17 The wicked shall adreturn to Sheol,
all the nations that aeforget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
and afthe hope of the poor shall not perish forever.
19 agArise, O Lord! Let not ahman prevail;
let the nations be judged before you!
20Put them in fear, O Lord!
Let the nations know that they are but aimen! Selah
Psalms 103
Bless the Lord, O My Soul
Of David.
1 ajBless the Lord, O my soul,and all that is within me,
bless his holy name!
2 akBless the Lord, O my soul,
and alforget not all his benefits,
3who amforgives all your iniquity,
who anheals all your diseases,
4who aoredeems your life from the pit,
who apcrowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
5who aqsatisfies you with good
so that your youth is renewed like arthe eagle’s.
6 The Lord works asrighteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed.
7He made known his atways to Moses,
his auacts to the people of Israel.
8The Lord is avmerciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9 awHe will not always chide,
nor will he axkeep his anger forever.
10He does not deal with us ayaccording to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
11For azas high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his basteadfast love toward bbthose who fear him;
12as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he bcremove our transgressions from us.
13As bda father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion beto those who fear him.
14For he knows our frame; ▼
▼Or knows how we are formed
he bgremembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are like bhgrass;
he flourishes like bia flower of the field;
16for bjthe wind passes over it, and bkit is gone,
and blits place knows it no more.
17But bmthe steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on bnthose who fear him,
and his righteousness to bochildren’s children,
18to those who bpkeep his covenant
and bqremember to do his commandments.
19The Lord has brestablished his throne in the heavens,
and his bskingdom rules over all.
20 Bless the Lord, O you bthis angels,
you bumighty ones who bvdo his word,
obeying the voice of his word!
21Bless the Lord, all his bwhosts,
his bxministers, who do his will!
22 byBless the Lord, all his works,
in all places of his dominion.
bzBless the Lord, O my soul!
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