Psalms 9
1 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:
“For the leader of the music; to be sung in the manner or with the voice of maidens. To the Benites, or to Ben. A psalm of David.” I will praise thee, O LORD! with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvellous works.
2 I will rejoice and exult in thee, I will praise in song, thy Name, O most High.
I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High!
3 When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished from before thee;
All my enemies are turned back; They fall and perish at thy presence.
4 For thou hast executed my right and my cause, Thou hast sat on the throne, judging righteously:
For thou dost defend my right and my cause; Thou sittest upon the throne, a righteous judge.
5 Thou hast rebuked the nations, Thou hast destroyed the lawless one, Their name, hast thou wiped out, to times age-abiding and beyond.
Thou rebukest the nations; Thou destroyest the wicked; Thou blottest out their name for evermore!
6 O enemy! complete are the desolations, evermore, —even cities, hast thou uprooted, The memory of, them, hath perished.
The enemy is fallen, —a desolation for ever! Thou, O LORD! hast destroyed their cities; Their memory itself hath perished!
7 But, Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, will sit, Ready for judgment, is his throne;
The LORD reigneth for ever; He hath prepared his throne for judgment.
8 And, he, will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to peoples, in uprightness.
He judgeth the world in righteousness; He administereth judgment to the nations with uprightness.
9 Thus be Yahweh a refuge for the crushed one, a refuge for times of destitution:
Yea, the LORD is a refuge for the oppressed; A refuge in times of trouble.
10 Thus let them who know thy Name, put confidence in thee, that thou hast not forsaken the searchers for thee, O Yahweh.
They who know thy name put their trust in thee; For thou, O LORD! forsakest not them that seek thee!
11 Sing ye praise to Yahweh, who is seated in Zion, Tell among the peoples his doings.
Sing praises to the LORD, who reigneth in Zion; Declare his doings among the people!
12 When he was making inquisition for blood, of them, had he remembrance, he forgat not the outcry of the oppressed.
As the avenger of blood, he remembereth the distressed; He forgetteth not their complaint.
13 Show me favour, O Yahweh! Behold my humiliation due to them who hate me, Lift me on high out of the gates of death;
“Have pity upon me, [[said I, ]] O LORD! Look upon my affliction through them that hate me; Lift me up from the gates of death:
14 That I may recount all thy praises, In the gates of the daughter of Zion, may exult in thy salvation.
That I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion; That I may rejoice in salvation by thee.”
15 The nations, have sunk, in the pit they had made, In the net which they had hidden, is caught their own foot.
The nations have sunk into the pit which they made; In the net, which they hid, is their own foot taken.
16 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)
Thus it is known that the LORD executeth judgment; The wicked are ensnared in the work of their own hands. [[Stringed instruments. (Pause)
The wicked shall be driven into the underworld; Yea, all the nations that forger God. (Sheol h7585)
18 For, not always, shall the needy, be forgotten, —[nor, ] the hope of the oppressed, perish for ever.
For the poor shall not always be forgotten; The hopes of the afflicted shall not perish for ever.
19 Rise! Yahweh! let man not prevail, let the nations be judged before thee.
Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; Let the nations be judged by thee!
20 Appoint, O Yahweh, a terror for them, —Let the nations know [that] they are men. (Selah)
Strike terror into them, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! (Pause)
