Layman's Study Bible - Psalm Chapter 9

. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

{9:2} I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

{9:3} When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

{9:4} For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

{9:5} You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

{9:6} The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

{9:7} But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

{9:8} He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

{9:9} Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

{9:10} Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

{9:11} Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

{9:12} For he who avenges blood

remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.

{9:13} Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates

of death;

{9:14} that I may show forth all your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.

{9:15} The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

{9:16} Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

{9:17} The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol

, even all the nations that forget God.

{9:18} For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope

of the poor perish forever.

{9:19} Arise, Yahweh! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

{9:20} Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

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