Psalms 9

¹For the end, a Psalm of David, concerning the secrets of the Son.

²I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all thy wonderful works.

³I will be glad and exult in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou Most High.

⁴When mine enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at thy presence.

⁵For thou hast maintained my cause and my right; thou satest on the throne, that judgest righteousness.

⁶Thou hast rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever.

⁷The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and thou hast destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise,

⁸but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.

⁹And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness.

¹⁰The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.

¹¹And let them that know thy name hope in thee: for thou, O Lord, hast not failed them that diligently seek thee.

¹²Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings among the nations.

¹³For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

¹⁴Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction which I suffer of mine enemies, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

¹⁵that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in thy salvation.

¹⁶The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.

¹⁷The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause.

¹⁸Let sinners be driven away into Hades, even all the nations that forget God.

¹⁹For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever.

²⁰Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before thee.

²¹Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause.

²²Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why dost thou overlook us in times of need, in affliction?

²³While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued: the wicked are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

²⁴Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.

²⁵The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him.

²⁶His ways are profane at all times; thy judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.

²⁷For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, continuing without evil from generation to generation.

²⁸Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

²⁹He lies in wait with rich men in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor.

³⁰He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him after him: he will bring him down in his snare.

³¹He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.

³²For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.

³³Arise, O Lord God; let thy hand be lifted up: forget not the poor.

³⁴Wherefore has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require it.

³⁵Thou seest it; for thou dost observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into thy hands: the poor has been left to thee; thou wast a helper to the orphan.

³⁶Break thou the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.

³⁷The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish out of his land.

³⁸The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: thine ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart;

³⁹to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.