Psalms 9
1 I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvellous works.
Yahweh, I will praise you with all of my inner being. I will tell [others] about all the wonderful things that you have done.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O you most High.
I will sing to celebrate what you [MTY], who are much greater than all other gods, [have done].
3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.
When my enemies realize [that you are very powerful], they stumble, and then they are killed.
4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right.
You sat on your throne to judge people, and you have judged fairly/justly concerning me.
5 You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name for ever and ever.
You rebuked the [people of other] nations and you have gotten rid of the wicked people; you have erased their names forever.
6 O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
Our enemies have disappeared; you destroyed their cities, and people do not even remember them any more.
7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.
But Yahweh rules forever. He judges [people while he sits] on his throne to judge people,
8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
and he will judge [all the people in] [SYN] the world justly; he will judge the people [of all nations] fairly [DOU].
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
Yahweh will be a refuge for those who are oppressed; [yes, he will be like] a shelter for them when they have trouble.
10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.
Those who know Yahweh [MTY] trust in him; he never abandons those who come to him ([for help/to worship him]).
11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwells in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
Yahweh rules from Zion [Hill]; praise him while you sing to him. Tell [the people of all] the nations the [marvelous] things that he has done.
12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.
He does not forget [to punish] those who have murdered others; and he will not ignore people who are crying because they are suffering.
13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:
Yahweh, be merciful to me! Look at the ways that my enemies have injured me. Do not allow me to die [because of these injuries].
14 That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.
I want to live in order that I can praise you at the gates of Jerusalem [MTY] and to rejoice because you rescued me.
15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
[It is as though] the [wicked people of many] nations have dug a pit for me to fall into [MET], but they have fallen into that same pit. [It is as if] they spread out a net to catch me [MET], but their feet have been caught in that same net.
16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. (Higgaion, Selah)
Because of what you have done, people know that you decide matters [fairly/justly], but [you allow] wicked people to be trapped by the same evil things that they themselves do.
Wicked people will all [die and] be buried in their graves, and [their spirits] will go to be with all those who have (forgotten about/rejected) you. (Sheol h7585)
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
But you will not forget those who are needy/poor; what they confidently expect will certainly happen.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in your sight.
Yahweh, arise and judge the [wicked] people of the nations; do not allow them to think that [because they are strong] they will never be punished.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. (Selah)
Yahweh, teach them to be terrified about you. Cause them to know that they are merely human beings.
