Psalm 9

I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart;
I will tell of all your wonders.
I will be glad and rejoice in you;
I will sing praise to your name,
O Most High.

My enemies turn back;
they stumble and perish before you.
For you have upheld my right and
my cause;
you have sat on your throne,
judging righteously.
You have rebuked the nations and
destroyed the wicked;
you have blotted out their name
for ever and ever.
Endless ruin has overtaken the
enemy,
you have uprooted their cities;
event the memory of them has
perished.
The LORD reigns forever;
he has established his throne for
judgement.
He will judge the world in
righteousness;
he will govern the peoples with
justice.

The LORD is a refuge for the
oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
Those who know your name will
trust in you,
for you, LORD, have never
forsaken those who seek
you.

Sing praises to the LORD enthroned
in Zion;
proclaim among the nations what he has done.
For he who avenges the blood
remembers;
he does not ignore the cry of the
afflicted.

O LORD, see how my enemies
persecute me!
Have mercy and lift me up
from the gates of death.
that I may declare your praises
in the gates of the Daughter of
Zion
and there rejoice in your
salvation.
The nations have fallen into the pit
they have dug;
their feet are caught in the net they
have hidden.
The LORD in known by his justice;
the wicked are ensnared by the
work of their hands.

The wicked return to the grave,
all the nations that forget God.
But the needy will not always be
forgotten,
nor the hope of the afflicted
ever perish.

Arise, O LORD, let not man
triumph;
let the nations be judged in your
presence.
Strike them with terror, O LORD;
let the nations know they are but
men.