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 ▼
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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 34
Taste and See That the Lord Is Good
▼▼This psalm is an acrostic poem, each verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet Of David, when he akchanged his behavior before alAbimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away.
1 I will bless the Lord amat all times;his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2My soul anmakes its boast in the Lord;
let the humble hear and aobe glad.
3Oh, apmagnify the Lord with me,
and let us exalt his name together!
4 I aqsought the Lord, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.
5Those who look to him are arradiant,
and their faces shall never be ashamed.
6 asThis poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
and atsaved him out of all his troubles.
7 auThe angel of the Lord avencamps
around those who fear him, and delivers them.
8 Oh, awtaste and see that axthe Lord is good!
ayBlessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
9Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,
for those who fear him have no lack!
10 azThe young lions suffer want and hunger;
but those who baseek the Lord lack no good thing.
11 bbCome, O children, listen to me;
bcI will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12 bdWhat man is there who desires life
and loves many days, that he may besee good?
13 bfKeep your tongue from evil
and your lips from bgspeaking deceit.
14 bhTurn away from evil and do good;
seek peace and bipursue it.
15 bjThe eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
bkand his ears toward their cry.
16 blThe face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
to bmcut off the memory of them from the earth.
17 bnWhen the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears
and delivers them out of all their troubles.
18The Lord is near to bothe brokenhearted
and saves bpthe crushed in spirit.
19 bqMany are the afflictions of the righteous,
brbut the Lord delivers him out of them all.
20He keeps all his bones;
bsnot one of them is broken.
21 btAffliction will slay the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
22The Lord buredeems the life of his servants;
none of those who take refuge in him will be bvcondemned.
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