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 Chief Musician; set to Muthlabben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks unto the LORD with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvelous works.
2 I rejoice and exult in You, I praise Your Name, O Most High.
I will be glad and exult in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.
3 In my enemies turning backward, They stumble and perish from Your face.
When mine enemies turn back, they stumble and perish at thy presence.
4 For You have done my judgment and my right. You have sat on a throne, Judging [with] righteousness.
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging righteously.
5 You have rebuked nations, You have destroyed the wicked, You have blotted out their name for all time and forever.
Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast blotted out their name 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 enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; and the cities which thou hast overthrown, their very memorial is perished.
7 And YHWH abides for all time, He is preparing His throne for judgment.
But the LORD sitteth [as king] for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
8 And He judges the world in righteousness, He judges the peoples in uprightness.
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
9 And YHWH is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.
The LORD also will be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble;
10 They trust in You who know Your Name, For You have not forsaken those seeking You, O YHWH.
And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
11 Sing praise to YHWH, inhabiting Zion, Declare His acts among the peoples,
Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
12 For He who is seeking for blood Has remembered them, He has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.
For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them: he forgetteth not 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 upon me, O LORD; behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me, thou that liftest 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 shew forth all thy praise: in the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in thy salvation.
15 Nations have sunk in a pit they made, Their foot has been captured in a net that they hid.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own 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 hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. (Higaion, Selah)
The wicked shall return to Sheol, 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 needy shall not alway be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor 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 nations be judged in thy sight.
20 Appoint them to fear, O YHWH, Let nations know they [are] men! (Selah)
Put them in fear, O LORD: let the nations know themselves to be but men. (Selah)
