Psalms 9
ASV

Psalms

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 unto Jehovah with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvellous works.+ 2I will be glad and exult in thee; I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.+ 3When mine enemies turn back, They stumble and perish at thy presence.+ 4For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou sittest in the throne judging righteously.+ 5Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.+ 6The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.+ 7But Jehovah sitteth [as king] for ever: He hath prepared his throne for judgment;+ 8And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.+ 9Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble;+ 10And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.+ 11Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion: Declare among the people his doings.+ 12For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.+ 13Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;+ 14That I may show forth all thy praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion I will rejoice in thy salvation.+ 15The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.+ 16Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.[Higgaion. Selah+ 17The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.+ 18For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, Nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.+ 19Arise, O Jehovah; let not man prevail: Let the nations be judged in thy sight.+ 20Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves to be but men.[Selah+

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