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 33

The Steadfast Love of the Lord

1 ajShout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous!
akPraise befits the upright.
2Give thanks to the Lord with the allyre;
make melody to him with amthe harp of anten strings!
3Sing to him aoa new song;
play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.
4 For the word of the Lord is upright,
and all his work is done in apfaithfulness.
5He aqloves righteousness and justice;
arthe earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.
6 By asthe word of the Lord the heavens were made,
and by atthe breath of his mouth all autheir host.
7He gathers the waters of the sea as ava heap;
he awputs the deeps in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the Lord;
let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
9For axhe spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm.
10 The Lord aybrings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
11 azThe counsel of the Lord stands forever,
the plans of his heart to all generations.
12 baBlessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has bbchosen as his heritage!
13 The Lord bclooks down from heaven;
he sees all the children of man;
14from bdwhere he sits enthroned he belooks out
on all the inhabitants of the earth,
15he who fashions the hearts of them all
and observes all their deeds.
16 bfThe king is not saved by his great army;
a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
17 bgThe war horse is a false hope for salvation,
and by its great might it cannot rescue.
18 Behold, bhthe eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
bion those who hope in his steadfast love,
19that he may bjdeliver their soul from death
and keep them alive in bkfamine.
20 Our soul blwaits for the Lord;
he is our bmhelp and bnour shield.
21For our heart is boglad in him,
because we bptrust in his holy name.
22Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
even as we hope in you.
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