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