Psalm 9
Psalm 9:1[1] I will thank Yahveh with all my heart; I will make known all your fabulous creations.
Psalm 9:2 I will be happy and brag about you; I will sing about your name, Most High.
Psalm 9:3 When my enemies retreat, they trip and are destroyed in your presence.
Psalm 9:4 Because you have upheld my just cause; you are seated on your throne as a judge with integrity.
Psalm 9:5 You have rebuked the nations: You have destroyed the wicked; you have erased their name permanently and continually.[2]
Psalm 9:6 The enemy has come to uninterrupted[3] ruin. You have uprooted the cities, and even the memory of them has perished.
Psalm 9:7 But Yahveh sits enthroned permanently; he has established his throne for judgment.
Psalm 9:8 And he judges the world with integrity; he passes judgment on the nations with fairness.
Psalm 9:9 Yahveh is a refuge for the persecuted, a refuge in times of trouble.
Psalm 9:10 Those who know your name have confidence in you because you have not abandoned those who seek you, Yahveh.
Psalm 9:11 Sing to Yahveh, who dwells in Zion; proclaim his deeds among the nations.
Psalm 9:12 Because the one who holds people accountable for bloodshed remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the oppressed.
Psalm 9:13 Show grace to me, Yahveh; consider my trouble at the hands of those who hate me. Lift me up from the gates of death, Psalm 9:14 so that I may declare all your praises. I will celebrate in your rescue within the gates of Daughter Zion.
Psalm 9:15 The nations have fallen into the trap they manufactured; their foot is caught in the net they have hidden.
Psalm 9:16 Yahveh has made himself known; he has brought about justice, trapping the wicked by the work of their hands. Higgaion. (Selah).
Psalm 9:17 The wicked ones will die and go to Sheol – all the nations that forget God.
Psalm 9:18 Because the needy will not be forgotten perpetually; the hope of the oppressed will not perish continually.
Psalm 9:19 Rise, Yahveh! Do not allow mortal humankind to prevail; let the nations be judged in your presence.
Psalm 9:20 Put terror in them, Yahveh; let the nations know they are mortal humankind. (Selah).
[1]superscription: A Psalm of David.
[2]עַד = continually. Psalm 9:5, 18; 10:16; 19:9; 21:4, 6; 22:26; 37:29.
[3] נֵצַח = uninterrupted. Psalm 9:6, 18; 10:11; 13:1; 16:11.
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