Chapter
Psalms 9

Book of Psalms - Chapter 9

Psalms 9:1

I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

Psalms 9:2

I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Psalms 9:3

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

Psalms 9:4

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

Psalms 9:5

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

Psalms 9:6

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

Psalms 9:7

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

Psalms 9:8

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

Psalms 9:9

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

Psalms 9:10

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

Psalms 9:11

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

Psalms 9:12

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

Psalms 9:13

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

Psalms 9:14

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

Psalms 9:15

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

Psalms 9:16

the LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

Psalms 9:17

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Psalms 9:18

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

Psalms 9:19

Arise, the LORD! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

Psalms 9:20

Put them in fear, the LORD. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

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