Psalms 9:2-19

²I will be glad and exult in you: I will sing to your name, O you Most High.

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

⁴For you have maintained my cause and my right; you sat on the throne, that judge righteousness.

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

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

⁷but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgement.

⁸And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness.

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

¹⁰And let them that know your name hope in you: for you, O Lord, have not failed them that diligently seek you.

¹¹Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings amongst the nations.

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

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

¹⁴that I may declare all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in your salvation.

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

¹⁶The Lord is known as executing judgements: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause.

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

¹⁸For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever.

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