Psalms 9
1 TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] ON “DEATH OF THE SON.” A PSALM OF DAVID. I confess, O YHWH, with all my heart, I recount all Your wonders,
Unto the end. For the secrets of the Son. A Psalm of David. I will confess to you, Lord, with my whole heart. I will recount all your wonders.
2 I rejoice and exult in You, I praise Your Name, O Most High.
I will rejoice and exult in you. I will sing a psalm to your name, O Most High.
3 In my enemies turning backward, They stumble and perish from Your face.
For my enemy will be turned back. They will be weakened and perish before your face.
4 For You have done my judgment and my right. You have sat on a throne, Judging [with] righteousness.
For you have accomplished my judgment and my cause. You have sat upon the throne that judges justice.
5 You have rebuked nations, You have destroyed the wicked, You have blotted out their name for all time and forever.
You have rebuked the Gentiles, and the impious one has perished. You have deleted their name in eternity and for all generations.
6 The enemy—[your] destructions have been completed forever, As for cities you have plucked up, Their memorial has perished with them.
The spears of the enemy have failed in the end, and their cities, you have destroyed. Their memory has perished with a loud noise.
7 And YHWH abides for all time, He is preparing His throne for judgment.
But the Lord remains in eternity. He has prepared his throne in judgment.
8 And He judges the world in righteousness, He judges the peoples in uprightness.
And he will judge the whole world in equity. He will judge the people in justice.
9 And YHWH is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.
And the Lord has become a refuge for the poor, a helper in opportunity, in tribulation.
10 They trust in You who know Your Name, For You have not forsaken those seeking You, O YHWH.
And may they hope in you, who know your name. For you have not abandoned those seeking you, Lord.
11 Sing praise to YHWH, inhabiting Zion, Declare His acts among the peoples,
Sing a psalm to the Lord, who dwells in Zion. Announce his study among the Gentiles.
12 For He who is seeking for blood Has remembered them, He has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.
Because of those who yearned for their blood, he has remembered them. He has not forgotten the cry of the poor.
13 Favor me, O YHWH, See my affliction by those hating me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,
Have mercy on me, Lord. See my humiliation from my enemies.
14 So that I recount all Your praise, In the gates of the daughter of Zion. I rejoice on Your salvation.
You lift me up from the gates of death, so that I may announce all your praises at the gates of the daughter of Zion.
15 Nations have sunk in a pit they made, Their foot has been captured in a net that they hid.
I will exult in your salvation. The Gentiles have become trapped in the ruin that they made. Their foot has been caught in the same snare that they themselves had hidden.
16 YHWH has been known, He has done judgment; By a work of his hands The wicked has been snared. (Meditation, Selah)
The Lord will be recognized when making judgments. The sinner has been caught in the works of his own hands. (Pause)
The sinners will be turned into Hell: all the Gentiles who have forgotten God. (Sheol h7585)
18 For the needy is not forgotten forever, [Nor] the hope of the humble lost for all time.
For the poor will not be forgotten in the end. The patience of the poor will not perish in the end.
19 Rise, O YHWH, do not let man be strong, Let nations be judged before Your face.
Rise up, Lord: do not let man be strengthened. Let the Gentiles be judged in your sight.
20 Appoint them to fear, O YHWH, Let nations know they [are] men! (Selah)
O Lord, establish a lawgiver over them, so that the Gentiles may know that they are only men. (Pause)
