- I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
- I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.
- My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.
- For you have upheld my right and my cause, sitting enthroned as the righteous judge.
- You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
- Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.
- The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.
- He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity.
- The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
- Those who know your name trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
- Sing the praises of the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.
- For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.
- LORD, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
- that I may declare your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion, and there rejoice in your salvation.
- The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
- The LORD is known by his acts of justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.[3]
- The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.
- But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.
- Arise, LORD, do not let mortals triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.
- Strike them with terror, LORD; let the nations know they are only mortal.
Psalm 9[1][2] For the director of music. To the tune of "The Death of the Son." A psalm of David.
- Psalms 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.
- The Hebrew has 'Higgaion' and 'Selah' (words of uncertain meaning) here; 'Selah' occurs also at the end of verse 20.