Psalm 9

¹ I WILL give thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart * I will speak of all thy marvellous works.

² I will be glad and rejoice in thee * yea, my songs will I make of thy Name, O thou most Highest.

³ While mine enemies are driven back * they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

⁴ For thou hast maintained my right and my cause * thou art set in the throne that judgest right.

⁵ Thou hast rebuked the heathen, and destroyed the ungodly * thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

⁶ O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end * even as the cities which thou hast destroyed, their memorial is perished with them.

⁷ But the Lord shall endure for ever * he hath also prepared his seat for judgement.

⁸ For he shall judge the world in righteousness * and minister true judgement unto the people.

⁹ The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed * even a refuge in due time of trouble.

¹⁰ And they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee * for thou, Lord, hast never failed them that seek thee.

¹¹ O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Sion * shew the people of his doings.

¹² For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them * and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.

¹³ Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me * thou that liftest me up from the gates of death.

¹⁴ That I may shew all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion * I will rejoice in thy salvation.

¹⁵ The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made * in the same net which they hid privily, is their foot taken.

¹⁶ The Lord is known to execute judgement * the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands.

¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned into hell * and all the people that forget God.

¹⁸ For the poor shall not alway be forgotten * the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever.

¹⁹ Up, Lord, and let not man have the upper hand * let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord * that the heathen may know themselves to be but men.