Chapter 9
1 I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in you . I will sing praise to your name, O Most High .
3 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.
4 For you have maintained my just cause . You sit on the throne judging righteously.
5 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked . You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
7 But Yahweh reigns forever . He has prepared his throne for judgment.
8 He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
9 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.
10 Those who know your name will put their trust in you , for you , Yahweh , have not forsaken those who seek you .
11 Sing praises to Yahweh , who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.
12 For he who avenges blood remembers them . He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
13 Have mercy on me , Yahweh . See my affliction by those who hate me , and lift me up from the gates of death ,
14 that I may show all of your praise . I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made . In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken .
16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment . The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
17 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God .
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever .
19 Arise, Yahweh ! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.
20 Put them in fear , Yahweh . Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.