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,
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.
2 I rejoice and exult in You, I praise Your Name, O Most High.
I will be glad and exult in you: I will sing to your name, O you Most High.
3 In my enemies turning backward, They stumble and perish from Your face.
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at your presence.
4 For You have done my judgment and my right. You have sat on a throne, Judging [with] righteousness.
For you have maintained my cause and my right; you sat on the throne, that judge righteousness.
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 nations, and the ungodly one has perished; you have blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever.
6 The enemy—[your] destructions have been completed forever, As for cities you have plucked up, Their memorial has perished with them.
The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and you have destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise,
7 And YHWH abides for all time, He is preparing His throne for judgment.
but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.
8 And He judges the world in righteousness, He judges the peoples in uprightness.
And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness.
9 And YHWH is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.
The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.
10 They trust in You who know Your Name, For You have not forsaken those seeking You, O YHWH.
And let them that know your name hope in you: for you, O Lord, have not failed them that diligently seek you.
11 Sing praise to YHWH, inhabiting Zion, Declare His acts among the peoples,
Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings among the nations.
12 For He who is seeking for blood Has remembered them, He has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.
For he remembered them, [in] making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication 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 upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction [which I suffer] of mine enemies, you that lift me up from the gates of death:
14 So that I recount all Your praise, In the gates of the daughter of Zion. I rejoice on Your salvation.
that I may declare all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in your salvation.
15 Nations have sunk in a pit they made, Their foot has been captured in a net that they hid.
The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.
16 YHWH has been known, He has done judgment; By a work of his hands The wicked has been snared. (Meditation, Selah)
The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. (A song of, Pause)
Let sinners be driven away into Hades, [even] all the nations that forget God. (Sheol h7585)
18 For the needy is not forgotten forever, [Nor] the hope of the humble lost for all time.
For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever.
19 Rise, O YHWH, do not let man be strong, Let nations be judged before Your face.
Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before you.
20 Appoint them to fear, O YHWH, Let nations know they [are] men! (Selah)
Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. (Pause)
