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,
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 rejoice and exult in You, I praise Your Name, O Most High.
I will sing to celebrate what you [MTY], who are much greater than all other gods, [have done].
3 In my enemies turning backward, They stumble and perish from Your face.
When my enemies realize [that you are very powerful], they stumble, and then they are killed.
4 For You have done my judgment and my right. You have sat on a throne, Judging [with] righteousness.
You sat on your throne to judge people, and you have judged fairly/justly concerning me.
5 You have rebuked nations, You have destroyed the wicked, You have blotted out their name for all time and forever.
You rebuked the [people of other] nations and you have gotten rid of the wicked people; you have erased their names forever.
6 The enemy—[your] destructions have been completed forever, As for cities you have plucked up, Their memorial has perished with them.
Our enemies have disappeared; you destroyed their cities, and people do not even remember them any more.
7 And YHWH abides for all time, He is preparing His throne for judgment.
But Yahweh rules forever. He judges [people while he sits] on his throne to judge people,
8 And He judges the world in righteousness, He judges the peoples 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 And YHWH is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.
Yahweh will be a refuge for those who are oppressed; [yes, he will be like] a shelter for them when they have trouble.
10 They trust in You who know Your Name, For You have not forsaken those seeking You, O YHWH.
Those who know Yahweh [MTY] trust in him; he never abandons those who come to him ([for help/to worship him]).
11 Sing praise to YHWH, inhabiting Zion, Declare His acts among the peoples,
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 For He who is seeking for blood Has remembered them, He has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.
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 Favor me, O YHWH, See my affliction by those hating me, You who 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 So that I recount all Your praise, In the gates of the daughter of Zion. I rejoice on 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 Nations have sunk in a pit they made, Their foot has been captured in a net that they hid.
[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 YHWH has been known, He has done judgment; By a work of his hands The wicked has been snared. (Meditation, 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 is not forgotten forever, [Nor] the hope of the humble lost for all time.
But you will not forget those who are needy/poor; what they confidently expect will certainly happen.
19 Rise, O YHWH, do not let man be strong, Let nations be judged before Your face.
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 Appoint them to fear, O YHWH, Let nations know they [are] men! (Selah)
Yahweh, teach them to be terrified about you. Cause them to know that they are merely human beings.
