Psalms, 9

1. <To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.> I will praise [thee], O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

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2. I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.

2. Let my heart give thanks to the Lord, I yearn to proclaim your marvelous deeds,

3. When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

3. and rejoice and exult in you, and sing praise to your name, O Most High.

4. For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

4. For my enemies fell back in retreat, they stumbled and perished before you.

5. Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

5. You have upheld my right and my cause, you have sentenced from your throne, O just judge.

6. O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

6. You have turned back the nations; you have beaten down the wicked and blotted out their names forever.

7. But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

7. Your enemies lay in endless ruin, their cities trampled, their memory perished.

8. And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

8. But the Lord reigns forever, having set up his throne for judgment.

9. The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

9. He will judge the nations with justice and govern the peoples in righteousness.

10. And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

10. The Lord is a rampart for the oppressed, a refuge in times of distress.

11. Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

11. Those who cherish your name, O Lord, can rely on you, for you have never forsaken those who look to you.

12. When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

12. Sing praises to the Lord enthroned in Zion, proclaim his deeds among the nations.

13. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble [which I suffer] of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

13. For he who avenges blood remembers, he does not ignore the cry of the lowly.

14. That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

14. Have mercy on me, O Lord. See how they afflict me. Oh, lift me up from the gates of death,

15. The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

15. that I may declare your praise, that I may rejoice in your salvation in the gates of Zion.

16. The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

16. The pagans have sunk into the pit they have dug, their own feet ensnared by the trap they laid.

17. The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.

17. The Lord has shown his presence, he has judged and the wicked plotters have been trapped by the work of their hands.

18. For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall [not] perish for ever.

18. To the netherworld the wicked will depart, all the nations that have no thought of God.

19. Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

19. For the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

20. Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] men. Selah.

20. Rise, O Lord! Do not let mortals prevail; let the nations stand on trial before you.

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21. Bring terror, O Lord, strike at them; let these pagans realize that they are but humans.