Psalm 9 ESV

Psalm 9

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

1 I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your ¹wonderful deeds.

2 I will be glad and ²exult in you; I will ³sing praise to your name, ⁴O Most High.

3 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before^a your presence.

4 For you have ⁵maintained my just cause; you have ⁶sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

5 You have ⁷rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have ⁸blotted out their name forever and ever.

6 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.

7 But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,

8 and he ⁹judges the world with righteousness; he ¹⁰judges the peoples with uprightness.

9 The LORD is ¹¹a stronghold for ¹²the oppressed, a stronghold in ¹³times of trouble.

10 And those who ¹⁴know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

11 Sing praises to the LORD, who ¹⁵sits enthroned in Zion! Tell among the peoples his ¹⁶deeds!

12 For he who ¹⁷avenges blood is mindful of them; he ¹⁸does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

13 ¹⁹Be gracious to me, O LORD! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from ²⁰the gates of death,

14 that I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of ²¹the daughter of Zion I may ²²rejoice in your salvation.

15 The nations have sunk in ²³the pit that they made; in ²⁴the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.

16 The LORD has made himself ²⁵known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah

17 The wicked shall ²⁶return to Sheol, all the nations that ²⁷forget God.

18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and ²⁸the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

19 ²⁹Arise, O LORD! Let not ³⁰man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!

20 Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but ³¹men! Selah

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