Psalm 9

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Yahweh Will Judge the World in Righteousness

For the choir director. Almuth-labben. A Psalm of David.

א Aleph

I will give thanks to Yahweh with all my heart;

I will recount all Your wondrous deeds.

א Aleph

I will be glad and exult in You;

I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

ב Beth

When my enemies turn back,

They stumble and perish before You.

For You have maintained my justice and my cause;

You have sat on the throne judging righteously.

ג Gimel

You have rebuked the nations, You have made the wicked perish;

You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

ה He

The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins,

And You have uprooted the cities;

The very memory of them has perished.

ו Vav

But Yahweh abides forever;

He has established His throne for judgment,

ו Vav

And He will judge the world in righteousness;

He will render justice for the peoples with equity.

ו Vav

Yahweh also will be a stronghold for the oppressed,

A stronghold in times of distress;

ו Vav

And those who know Your name will put their trust in You,

For You, O Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek You.

ז Zayin

Sing praises to Yahweh, who abides in Zion;

Declare among the peoples His acts.

For He who requires blood remembers them;

He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

ח Heth

Be gracious to me, O Yahweh;

See my affliction from those who hate me,

You who lift me up from the gates of death,

That I may recount all Your praises,

That in the gates of the daughter of Zion

I may rejoice in Your salvation.

ט Teth

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;

In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

Yahweh has made Himself known;

He has executed judgment.

In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.

י Yodh

The wicked will return to Sheol,

Even all the nations who forget God.

כ Kaph

For the needy will not always be forgotten,

Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

Arise, O Yahweh, do not let man prevail;

Let the nations be judged before You.

Put them in fear, O Yahweh;

Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.

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