Psalms 9:3-20 ▼

3 In turning back my enemies they shall stumble and shall perish from Your face.

4 For You have done my justice and my claim; You have sat on the throne, judging with righteousness.

5 You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; their name You have wiped out forever and ever.

6 May the enemy be finished in ruins forever, and You have uprooted cities; let their remembrance perish with them!

7 And YHWH shall sit forever; He has established His throne for the judgment.

8 And He will judge the world in righteousness; He shall make judgment for the peoples in uprightness.

9 And YHWH will be a secure height for the oppressed, a secure height in times of distress.

10 And they will put their trust in You—those knowing Your name—for You have not forsaken those seeking You, O YHWH.

11 Sing praise to YHWH, the One sitting in Zion; declare His deeds among the peoples.

12 For the One seeking out the blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

13 Show favor to me, O YHWH; see my affliction from those hating me; raise me high from the gates of death,

14 so that I may recount all Your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will rejoice in Your salvation.

15 The nations have sunk down into the pit they have made; in the net that they hid, their foot is caught.

16 YHWH is known by the justice He has done; by the work of his own hands the wicked one is snared. Higgaion Selah

17 the wicked shall return to Sheol—all the nations forgetting God.

18 For the needy will not be forgotten forever, nor the hope of the poor perish to the end.

19 Arise, O YHWH! Do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged before Your face.

20 Put fear on them, O YHWH; let the nations know they are mortal. Selah