Psalm 9

¹ I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart;
I will recount all your wonders.

² I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

³ When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before your face.

⁴ For you have upheld my right and my 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—ruins are finished forever!
You have uprooted cities;
the very memory of them has perished.

⁷ But the LORD sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice.

⁸ He judges the world with righteousness;
he renders judgment to the peoples with equity.

⁹ The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of distress.

¹⁰ Those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you have not forsaken those who seek you, O LORD.

¹¹ Sing praise to the LORD who dwells in Zion;
declare his deeds among the peoples.

¹² For the one who avenges blood remembers them;
he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³ Be gracious to me, O LORD!
See my affliction from those who hate me,
you who lift me from the gates of death,

¹⁴ so that I may recount all your praises
in the gates of the daughter of Zion,
and rejoice in your salvation.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk into the pit they made;
in the net they hid, their own foot is caught.

¹⁶ The LORD has made himself known; he has executed justice.
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah

¹⁷ The wicked shall return to Sheol—
all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸ For the needy will not always be forgotten,
nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

¹⁹ Rise up, O LORD! Let not mortals prevail;
let the nations be judged before your face.

²⁰ Put them in fear, O LORD;
let the nations know they are merely human. Selah