Psalm 9

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

1I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all your wonderful works.

2I will be glad and exult in you: I will sing to your name, O you Most High.

3When my enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at your presence.

4For you have maintained my cause and my right; you sat on the throne, that judge righteousness.

5You have rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; you have blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever.

6The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and you have destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise,

7but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.

8And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness.

9The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.

10And let them that know your name hope in you: for you, O Lord, have not failed them that diligently seek you.

11Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings among the nations.

12For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

13Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction which I suffer of my enemies, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

14that I may declare all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in your salvation.

15The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.

16The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause.

17Let sinners be driven away into Hades, even all the nations that forget God.

18For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever.

19Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before you.

20Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause.

(Psalm 9a1) 21Why stand you afar off, O Lord? why do you overlook us in times of need, in affliction?

22While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is 2 hotly pursued: the wicked are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

23Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.

24The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his 3 pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him.

25His ways are 4 profane at all times; your judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.

26For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, continuing without evil from generation to generation. 5

27Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

28He lies in wait with rich men in secret places, in order to kill the innocent: his eyes are 6 set against the poor.

29He 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.

30He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.

31For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.

32Arise, O Lord God; let your hand be lifted up: forget not the poor.

33Therefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require it.

34You see it; for you do observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into your hands: the poor has been left to you; you were a helper to the orphan.

35Break you the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.

36The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: you⌃ Gentiles shall perish out his land.

37The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: your ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart;

38to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.