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Thanksgiving for God’s Justice.
For the music director; on [a]Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.
1I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart;
I will tell of all Your [b]wonders.
2I will rejoice and be jubilant in You;
I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
3When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish before You.
4For You have maintained [c]my just cause;
You have sat on the throne [d]judging righteously.
5You have rebuked the nations, You have eliminated the wicked;
You have wiped out their name forever and ever.
6[e]The enemy has come to an end in everlasting ruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very memory of them has perished.
7But the LORD [f]sits as King forever;
He has established His throne for judgment,
8And He will judge the world in righteousness;
He will execute judgment for the peoples fairly.
9[g]The LORD will also be a stronghold for the oppressed,
A stronghold in times of trouble;
10And [h]those who know Your name will put their trust in You,
For You, LORD, have not abandoned those who seek You.
11Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion;
Declare His deeds among the peoples.
12For He who [i]requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the needy.
13Be gracious to me, LORD;
See my oppression from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,
14So that I may tell of all Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may rejoice in Your [j]salvation.
15The nations have sunk down into the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16The LORD has made Himself known;
He has executed judgment.
A wicked one is ensnared in the work of his own hands. [k]Higgaion Selah
17The wicked will [l]return to [m]Sheol,
All the nations who forget God.
18For the needy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.
19Arise, LORD, do not let mankind prevail;
Let the nations be judged before You.
20Put them in fear, LORD;
Let the nations know that they are merely human. Selah
[a] PSALM 9Title Meaning of the Heb uncertain
[b] 1 Or miracles
[c] 4 Lit my right and my cause
[d] 4 Or a righteous Judge
[e] 6 Or O enemy, desolations are finished forever; And their cities You have uprooted
[f] 7 Or remains forever
[g] 9 Or Let the LORD also be
[h] 10 Or let those...name put
[i] 12 I.e., avenges bloodshed
[j] 14 Or deliverance
[k] 16 Perhaps, resounding music or meditation
[l] 17 Or turn
[m] 17 I.e., the netherworld