Psalm 9

¹I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart; *I will tell of all your marvelous works.

²I will be glad and rejoice in you; *I will sing to your Name, O Most High.

³When my enemies are driven back, *they will stumble and perish at your presence.

⁴For you have maintained my right and my cause; *you sit upon your throne judging right.

⁵You have rebuked the ungodly and destroyed the wicked; *you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.

⁶As for the enemy, they are finished, in perpetual ruin, *their cities plowed under, the memory of them perished;

⁷But the Lord is enthroned for ever; *he has set up this throne for judgment.

⁸It is he who rules the world with righteousness; *he judges the peoples with equity.

⁹The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed, *a refuge in time of trouble.

¹⁰Those who know your Name will put their trust in you, *for you never forsake those who seek you, O Lord.

¹¹Sing praise to the Lord who dwells in Zion; *proclaim to the peoples the things he has done.

¹²The Avenger of blood will remember them; *he will not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³Have pity on me, O Lord; *see the misery I suffer from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gate of death;

¹⁴So that I may tell of all your praises and rejoice in your salvation *in the gates of the city of Zion.

¹⁵The ungodly have fallen into the pit they dug, *and in the snare they set is their own foot caught.

¹⁶The Lord is known by his acts of justice; *the wicked are trapped in the works of their own hands.

¹⁷The wicked shall be given over to the grave, *and also all the people that forget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not always be forgotten, *and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.

¹⁹Rise up, O Lord, let not the ungodly have the upper hand; *let them be judged before you.

²⁰Put fear upon them, O Lord; *let the ungodly know they are but mortal.