Psalms 9 · Clearspring

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 the LORD with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvellous 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 the LORD reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgement.+ ⁸He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgement to the peoples in uprightness.+ ⁹The LORD 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, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.+ ¹¹Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion, and declare amongst 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, LORD. 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. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.+ ¹⁵The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.+ ¹⁶The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgement. 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, LORD! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.+ ²⁰Put them in fear, LORD. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.+

I Will Give Thanks to the LORD

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