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 74
Arise, O God, Defend Your Cause
A Maskil ▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term of akAsaph.
1 O God, why do you alcast us off forever?Why does your anger amsmoke against anthe sheep of your pasture?
2 aoRemember your congregation, which you have appurchased of old,
which you have aqredeemed to be arthe tribe of your heritage!
Remember Mount Zion, aswhere you have dwelt.
3Direct your steps to atthe perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
4 Your foes have auroared in the midst of your meeting place;
avthey set up their awown signs for axsigns.
5They were like those who swing ayaxes
in a forest of trees. ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
6And all its bacarved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7They bbset your sanctuary on fire;
they bcprofaned bdthe dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.
8They besaid to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9 We do not see our bfsigns;
bgthere is no longer any prophet,
and there is none among us who knows how long.
10How long, O God, bhis the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
11Why bido you hold back your hand, your right hand?
Take it from the fold of your garment ▼
▼Hebrew from your bosom
and destroy them!12 Yet bkGod my King is from of old,
working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13You bldivided the sea by your might;
you bmbroke the heads of bnthe sea monsters ▼
▼Or the great sea creatures
on the waters.14You crushed the heads of bpLeviathan;
you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
15You bqsplit open springs and brooks;
you brdried up ever-flowing streams.
16Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you have established bsthe heavenly lights and the sun.
17You have btfixed all the boundaries of the earth;
you have made busummer and winter.
18 bvRemember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
and bwa foolish people reviles your name.
19Do not deliver the soul of your bxdove to the wild beasts;
bydo not forget the life of your poor forever.
20 Have regard for bzthe covenant,
for cathe dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
21Let not cbthe downtrodden ccturn back in shame;
let cdthe poor and needy praise your name.
22 Arise, O God, cedefend your cause;
cfremember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
23Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
cgthe uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!
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