Psalms 9
1 For the end, a Psalm of David, concerning the secrets of the Son. I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all your wonderful works.
To the Chief Musician. On "Muthlabben." A Melody of David. I will praise Yahweh with all my heart, I will recount all thy wonderful doings:
2 I will be glad and exult in you: I will sing to your name, O you Most High.
I will rejoice and exult in thee, I will praise in song, thy Name, O most High.
3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at your presence.
When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished from before thee;
4 For you have maintained my cause and my right; you sat on the throne, that judge righteousness.
For thou hast executed my right and my cause, Thou hast sat on the throne, judging righteously:
5 You have rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; you have blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever.
Thou hast rebuked the nations, Thou hast destroyed the lawless one, Their name, hast thou wiped out, to times age-abiding and beyond.
6 The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and you have destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise,
O enemy! complete are the desolations, evermore, —even cities, hast thou uprooted, The memory of, them, hath perished.
7 but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.
But, Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, will sit, Ready for judgment, is his throne;
8 And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness.
And, he, will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to peoples, in uprightness.
9 The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.
Thus be Yahweh a refuge for the crushed one, a refuge for times of destitution:
10 And let them that know your name hope in you: for you, O Lord, have not failed them that diligently seek you.
Thus let them who know thy Name, put confidence in thee, that thou hast not forsaken the searchers for thee, O Yahweh.
11 Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings among the nations.
Sing ye praise to Yahweh, who is seated in Zion, Tell among the peoples his doings.
12 For he remembered them, [in] making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.
When he was making inquisition for blood, of them, had he remembrance, he forgat not the outcry of the oppressed.
13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction [which I suffer] of mine enemies, you that lift me up from the gates of death:
Show me favour, O Yahweh! Behold my humiliation due to them who hate me, Lift me on high out of the gates of death;
14 that I may declare all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in your salvation.
That I may recount all thy praises, In the gates of the daughter of Zion, may exult in thy salvation.
15 The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.
The nations, have sunk, in the pit they had made, In the net which they had hidden, is caught their own foot.
16 The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. (A song of, Pause)
To be known is Yahweh, by the sentence he hath executed, By the doing of his own hands, is he about to strike down the lawless one. [Resounding music. (Selah)
The lawless, shall return, to hades, all nations forgetful of God. (Sheol h7585)
18 For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever.
For, not always, shall the needy, be forgotten, —[nor, ] the hope of the oppressed, perish for ever.
19 Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before you.
Rise! Yahweh! let man not prevail, let the nations be judged before thee.
20 Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. (Pause)
Appoint, O Yahweh, a terror for them, —Let the nations know [that] they are men. (Selah)
