AB - Psalms - 9

9:1  I will give thanks to You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all Your wonderful works.

9:2  I will be glad and exalt in You: I will sing to Your name, O Most High.

9:3  When my enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at Your presence.

9:4  For You have maintained my cause and my right; You sat on the throne, that judges in righteousness.

9:5  You have rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; You have blotted out their name forever, even forever and ever.

9:6  The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and you have destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise,

9:7  but the Lord endures forever; He has prepared His throne for judgment.

9:8  And He will judge the world in righteousness, He will judge the nations in uprightness.

9:9  The Lord also has become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.

9:10  And let them that know Your name hope in You-for You, O Lord, have not failed them that diligently seek You.

9:11  Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion: declare His dealings among the nations.

9:12  For He remembered them, in making inquisition for blood; He has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

9:13  Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction which I suffer from my enemies, You that lift me up from the gates of death:

9:14  that I may declare all Your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in Your salvation.

9:15  The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.

9:16  The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. Pause.

9:17  Let sinners be driven away into Hades, even all the nations that forget God.

9:18  For the poor shall not be forgotten forever; the patience of the needy ones shall not perish forever.

9:19  Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before You.

9:20  Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause.