Psalm 9

I will give thanks unto you, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will speak of all your marvelous works.

I will be glad and rejoice in you; indeed, my songs will I sing of your Name, O Most High.

When my enemies are driven back, they shall fall and perish at your presence;

For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sit on your throne judging right.

You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the ungodly; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.

As for the enemy, their destruction has come; they are in perpetual ruin; like the cities which you have destroyed, their memory has perished with them.

But the Lord sits enthroned for ever; he has prepared his seat for judgment.

For he shall judge the world in righteousness, and minister true judgment to the peoples.

The Lord will be a defense for the oppressed, even a refuge in the time of trouble;

And those who know your Name will put their trust in you, for you, Lord, have never failed those who seek you.

O praise the Lord who dwells in Zion; tell the peoples what things he has done.

For when he takes vengeance for blood, he remembers them, and forgets not the cry of the poor.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider the trouble I suffer from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

That I may tell of all your praises within the gates of the daughter of Zion; I will rejoice in your salvation.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid secretly is their foot caught.

The Lord is known to execute judgment; the ungodly are trapped in the works of their own hands.

The wicked shall return to the grave, even all the peoples that forget God.

For the poor shall not always be forgotten; the patient hope of the meek shall not perish for ever.

Rise up, O Lord, and let them not have the upper hand; let the nations be judged in your sight.

Put them in fear, O Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be merely human.