Psalms 9
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For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David. + 9:1 Psalms 9 and 10 together follow an acrostic pattern, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the LXX they form one psalm.

I Will Give Thanks to the LORD

1I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.+ 2I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.+ 3When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.+ 4For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.+ 5You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.+ 6The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.+ 7But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.+ 8He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.+ 9Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.+ 10Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.+ 11Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.+ 12For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.+ 13Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;+ 14that I may show all of your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.+ 15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.+ 16Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.+ 17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.+ 18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.+ 19Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.+ 20Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.+
Footnotes (1)
  1. a 9:17 Sheol is the place of the dead.

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