Psalms 9:4-14

⁴For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

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

⁶The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

⁷But the LORD reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

⁸He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

⁹The LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

¹⁰Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

¹²For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³Have mercy on me, LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.