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 112
The Righteous Will Never Be Moved
1 ▼▼This psalm is an acrostic poem, each line beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet
akPraise the Lord!alBlessed is the man who fears the Lord,
who amgreatly delights in his commandments!
2His anoffspring will be mighty in the land;
aothe generation of the upright will be blessed.
3 apWealth and riches are in his house,
and his aqrighteousness endures forever.
4Light dawns in the darkness arfor the upright;
he is gracious, merciful, and asrighteous.
5It is well with the man who atdeals generously and lends;
who conducts his affairs with justice.
6For the righteous will aunever be moved;
avhe will be remembered forever.
7He is not awafraid of bad news;
his axheart is firm, aytrusting in the Lord.
8His heart is steady; he will not be afraid,
until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.
9He has azdistributed freely; he has given to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever;
his bahorn is exalted in honor.
10The wicked man sees it and is angry;
he bbgnashes his teeth and bcmelts away;
bdthe desire of the wicked will perish!
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