Psalms 9
Psalm 9
Yahweh Will Judge the World in Righteousness
For the choir director. ▼▼Or According to the Death of the Son; possibly a title for a tuneAlmuth-labben. A Psalm of David.
Aleph1 ▼
▼ This poem loosely follows an acrostic pattern
I will give thanks to Yahweh with all my heart;I will recount all Your ▼
▼Or miracles
wondrous deeds.Aleph
2I will be glad and exult in You;
I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
Beth
3When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish before You.
4For You have maintained my ▼
▼Or right
justice and my cause;You have sat on the throne ▼
▼Or a righteous Judge
judging righteously.Gimel
5You have rebuked the nations, You have made the wicked perish;
You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
He
6 ▼
▼ Or O enemy, desolations are finished forever; And their cities You have plucked up
The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ▼▼Or waste places
ruins,And You have uprooted the cities;
The very memory of them has perished.
Vav
7But Yahweh ▼
▼Or sits as king
abides forever;He has established His throne for judgment,
Vav
8And He will judge the world in righteousness;
He will render justice for the peoples with equity.
Vav
9 ▼
▼ Or Let Yahweh also be
Yahweh also will be a stronghold for the oppressed,A stronghold in times of ▼
▼Or trouble
distress;Vav
10And ▼
▼Or let those...name put
those who know Your name will put their trust in You,For You, O Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek You.
Zayin
11Sing praises to Yahweh, who abides in Zion;
Declare among the peoples His acts.
12For He who ▼
▼Avenges bloodshed
requires blood remembers them;He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
Heth
13Be gracious to me, O Yahweh;
See my affliction from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,
14That I may recount all Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may rejoice in Your ▼
▼Or deliverance
salvation.Teth
15The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16Yahweh has made Himself known;
He has executed judgment.
In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. ▼
▼Possibly resounding music or meditation
Higgaion ▼▼Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude
Selah.Yodh
17The wicked will ▼
▼Or turn
return to Sheol,Even all the nations who forget God.
Kaph
18For the needy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.
19Arise, O Yahweh, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged before You.
20Put them in fear, O Yahweh;
Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.
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