Psalm 9

I will give thanks to you, O LORD , with my whole heart;

I will tell of all your marvelous works.

I will be glad and rejoice in you;

I will sing to your Name, O Most High.

When my enemies are driven back,

they will stumble and perish at your presence.

For you have maintained my right and my cause;

you sit upon your throne judging right.

You have rebuked the ungodly and destroyed the wicked;

you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.

As for the enemy, they are finished, in perpetual ruin,

their cities plowed under, the memory of them perished;

But the LORD is enthroned for ever;

he has set up his throne for judgment.

It is he who rules the world with righteousness;

he judges the peoples with equity.

The LORD will be a refuge for the oppressed,

a refuge in time of trouble.

Those who know your Name will put their trust in you,

for you never forsake those who seek you, O LORD .

Sing praise to the LORD who dwells in Zion;

proclaim to the peoples the things he has done.

The Avenger of blood will remember them;

he will not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Have pity on me, O LORD ;

see the misery I suffer from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gate of death;

So that I may tell of all your praises and rejoice in your salvation

in the gates of the city of Zion.

The ungodly have fallen into the pit they dug,

and in the snare they set is their own foot caught.

The LORD is known by his acts of justice;

the wicked are trapped in the works of their own hands.

The wicked shall be given over to the grave,

and also all the people that forget God.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten,

and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Rise up, O LORD , let not the ungodly have the upper hand;

let them be judged before you.

Put fear upon them, O LORD ;

let the ungodly know they are but mortal.