Psalms

9 I will praise you, O Jehovah, with all my heart;

I will tell about all your wonderful works.+

 2 I will rejoice and exult in you;

I will sing praises* to your name, O Most High.+

 3 When my enemies retreat,+

They will stumble and perish from before you.

 4 For you defend my just cause;

You sit on your throne judging with righteousness.+

 5 You have rebuked nations+ and destroyed the wicked,

Blotting out their name forever and ever.

 6 The enemy has been ruined forever;

You uprooted their cities,

And all memory of them will perish.+

 7 But Jehovah is enthroned forever;+

He has firmly established his throne for justice.+

 8 He will judge the inhabited earth* in righteousness;+

He will render righteous legal decisions for the nations.+

 9 Jehovah will become a secure refuge* for the oppressed,+

A secure refuge in times of distress.+

10 Those knowing your name will trust in you;+

You will never abandon those seeking you, O Jehovah.+

11 Sing praises to Jehovah, who is dwelling in Zion;

Make his deeds known among the peoples.+

12 For the One who avenges their blood remembers them;+

He will not forget the cry of the afflicted.+

13 Show me favor, O Jehovah; see my affliction by those hating me,

You who raise me from the gates of death,+

14 So that I may declare your praiseworthy deeds in the gates of the daughter of Zion,+

And rejoice in your acts of salvation.+

15 The nations have sunk down into the pit they made;

Their own foot has been caught in the net they hid.+

17 The wicked will retreat toward the Grave,*

All the nations who forget God.

18 But the poor will not always be forgotten;+

Nor will the hope of the meek ever perish.+

20 Strike them with fear, O Jehovah,+

Let the nations know that they are only mortal men. (Selah)