1 Psalm 9 Yahweh Will Judge the World in Righteousness For the choir director. 9:0Or According to the Death of the Son; possibly a title for a tune Almuth-labben. A Psalm of David.Aleph 9:1This poem loosely follows an acrostic pattern I will give thanks to Yahweh with all my heart;I will recount all Your 9:1Or miracles wondrous deeds.Aleph
2 I will be glad and exult in You;I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.Beth
3 ¶When my enemies turn back,They stumble and perish before You.
4 For You have maintained my 9:4Or right justice and my cause;You have sat on the throne 9:4Or a righteous Judge judging righteously.Gimel
5 You have rebuked the nations, You have made the wicked perish;You have blotted out their name forever and ever.He
6 9:6Or O enemy, desolations are finished forever; And their cities You have plucked up The enemy has come to an end in perpetual 9:6Or waste places ruins,And You have uprooted the cities;The very memory of them has perished.Vav
7 ¶But Yahweh 9:7 Or sits as king abides forever;He has established His throne for judgment,Vav
8 And He will judge the world in righteousness;He will render justice for the peoples with equity.Vav
9 9:9 Or Let Yahweh also be Yahweh also will be a stronghold for the oppressed,A stronghold in times of 9:9 Or trouble distress;Vav
10 And 9:10Or 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
11 ¶Sing praises to Yahweh, who abides in Zion;Declare among the peoples His acts.
12 For He who 9:12Avenges bloodshed requires blood remembers them;He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.Heth
13 Be gracious to me, O Yahweh;See my affliction from those who hate me,You who lift me up from the gates of death,
14 That I may recount all Your praises,That in the gates of the daughter of ZionI may rejoice in Your 9:14Or deliverance salvation.Teth
15 The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 Yahweh has made Himself known;He has executed judgment.In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. 9:16 Possibly resounding music or meditation Higgaion 9:16 Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude Selah.Yodh
17 ¶The wicked will 9:17Or turn return to Sheol,Evenall the nations who forget God.Kaph
18 For the needy will not always be forgotten,Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.
19 Arise, O Yahweh, do not let man prevail;Let the nations be judged before You.
20 Put them in fear, O Yahweh;Let the nations know that they are but men.Selah.