Psalms, 9

To the director upon Muth-labʹben.^*1 A melody of David.

א [ʼAʹleph]^*1

¹ I will laud [you], O Jehovah, with all my heart; I will declare all your wonderful works.

² I will rejoice and exult in you, I will make melody to your name, O Most High.

ב [Behth]

³ When my enemies turn back, They will stumble and perish from before you.

⁴ For you have executed my judgment and my cause; You have sat on the throne judging with righteousness.

ג [Giʹmel]

⁵ You have rebuked nations, you have destroyed the wicked one. Their name you have wiped out to time indefinite, even forever.^*1

⁶ O you enemy, [your] desolations have come to their perpetual finish, And the cities that you have uprooted. The very mention of them will certainly perish.

ה [Heʼ]

⁷ As for Jehovah, he will sit to time indefinite, Firmly establishing his throne for judgment itself.

⁸ And he himself will judge the productive land^*1 in righteousness; He will judicially try national groups in uprightness.

ו [Waw]

⁹ And Jehovah will become a secure height for anyone crushed, A secure height in times of distress.

¹⁰ And those knowing your name will trust in you, For you will certainly not leave those looking for you, O Jehovah.

ז [Zaʹyin]

¹¹ Make melody, YOU people, to Jehovah, who is dwelling in Zion; Tell among the peoples his deeds.

¹² For, when looking for bloodshed, he will certainly remember those very ones; He is sure not to forget the outcry of the afflicted ones.

ח [Chehth]

¹³ Show me favor, O Jehovah; see my affliction by those hating me, O you who are lifting me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴ In order that I may declare all your praiseworthy deeds In the gates of the daughter of Zion, That I may be joyful in your salvation.

ט [Tehth]

¹⁵ The nations have sunk down into the pit that they have made; In the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.

¹⁶ Jehovah is known by the judgment that he has executed. By the activity of his own hands the wicked one has been ensnared.^*1 Hig·gaʹion.^*2 Seʹlah.

י [Yohdh]

¹⁷ Wicked people will turn back to Sheʹol,^*1 Even all the nations forgetting God.^*2

¹⁸ For not always will the poor one be forgotten, Nor will the hope of the meek ones ever perish.

כ [Kaph]

¹⁹ Do arise, O Jehovah! Let not mortal man prove superior in strength. Let the nations be judged before your face.

²⁰ Do put fear into them,^*1 O Jehovah, That the nations may know that they are but mortal men. Seʹlah.