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 10
Why Do You Hide Yourself?
1 Why, O Lord, do you stand ajfar away?Why akdo you hide yourself in altimes of trouble?
2 In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;
let them ambe caught in the schemes that they have devised.
3For the wicked anboasts of the desires of his soul,
and the one greedy for gain aocurses ▼
▼Or and he blesses the one greedy for gain
and aqrenounces the Lord.4In the pride of his face ▼
▼Or of his anger
the wicked does not asseek him; ▼▼Or the wicked says, “He will not call to account”
all his thoughts are, au“There is no God.”
5His ways prosper at all times;
your judgments are on high, avout of his sight;
as for all his foes, he awpuffs at them.
6He axsays in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
throughout all generations I ayshall not meet adversity.”
7 azHis mouth is filled with cursing and badeceit and bboppression;
bcunder his tongue are bdmischief and beiniquity.
8He sits in ambush in the villages;
in bfhiding places he murders the innocent.
His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
9he lurks in ambush like bga lion in his bhthicket;
he bilurks that he may seize the poor;
he seizes the poor when he draws him into his bjnet.
10The helpless are crushed, sink down,
and fall by his might.
11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,
he has bkhidden his face, he blwill never see it.”
12 bmArise, O Lord; O God, bnlift up your hand;
boforget not the afflicted.
13Why does the wicked bprenounce God
and say in his heart, “You will not bqcall to account”?
14But you do see, for you brnote mischief and vexation,
that you may take it into your hands;
to you the helpless bscommits himself;
you have been btthe helper of the fatherless.
15 buBreak the arm of the wicked and evildoer;
bvcall his wickedness to account till you find none.
16 bwThe Lord is king forever and ever;
the bxnations perish from his land.
17O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
you will bystrengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
18to bzdo justice to the fatherless and cathe oppressed,
so that cbman who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
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