• Psalm 9Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.In Hebrew texts 9:1-20 is numbered 9:2-21.

  • 1 I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
  • 2 I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.
  • 3 My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.
  • 4 For you have upheld my right and my cause, sitting enthroned as the righteous judge.
  • 5 You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
  • 6 Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.
  • 7 The Lord reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.
  • 8 He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity.
  • 9 The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
  • 10 Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.
  • 11 Sing the praises of the Lord, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.
  • 12 For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.
  • 13 Lord, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
  • 14 that I may declare your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion, and there rejoice in your salvation.
  • 15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
  • 16 The Lord is known by his acts of justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.
  • 17 The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.
  • 18 But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.
  • 19 Arise, Lord, do not let mortals triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.
  • 20 Strike them with terror, Lord; let the nations know they are only mortal.