Psalm 9 | Liturgical Calendar

1

I will give thanks unto you, O Lord, with my whole heart; *

I will speak of all your marvelous works.

2

I will be glad and rejoice in you; *

indeed, my songs will I sing of your Name, O Most High.

3

When my enemies are driven back, *

they shall fall and perish at your presence;

4

For you have maintained my right and my cause; *

you sit on your throne judging right.

5

You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the ungodly; *

you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.

6

As for the enemy, their destruction has come; they are in perpetual ruin; *

like the cities which you have destroyed, their memory has perished with them.

7

But the Lord sits enthroned for ever; *

he has prepared his seat for judgment.

8

For he shall judge the world in righteousness, *

and minister true judgment to the peoples.

9

The Lord will be a defense for the oppressed, *

even a refuge in the time of trouble;

10

And those who know your Name will put their trust in you, *

for you, Lord, have never failed those who seek you.

11

O praise the Lord who dwells in Zion; *

tell the peoples what things he has done.

12

For when he takes vengeance for blood, he remembers them, *

and forgets not the cry of the poor.

13

Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider the trouble I suffer from those who hate me, *

O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

14

That I may tell of all your praises within the gates of the daughter of Zion; *

I will rejoice in your salvation.

15

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; *

in the same net which they hid secretly is their foot caught.

16

The Lord is known to execute judgment; *

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

17

The wicked shall return to the grave, *

even all the peoples that forget God.

18

For the poor shall not always be forgotten; *

the patient hope of the meek shall not perish for ever.

19

Rise up, O Lord, and let them not have the upper hand; *

let the nations be judged in your sight.

20

Put them in fear, O Lord, *

that the nations may know themselves to be merely human.