9:1 *[For the director of music. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A psalm of David.] I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. / *Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm. / *In Hebrew texts 9:1-20 is numbered 9:2-21.
9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.
9:3 My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.
9:4 For you have upheld my right and my cause, sitting enthroned as the righteous judge.
9:5 You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
9:6 Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.
9:7 The Lord reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.
9:8 He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity.
9:9 The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
9:10 Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.
9:11 Sing the praises of the Lord, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.
9:12 For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.
9:13 Lord, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
9:14 that I may declare your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion, and there rejoice in your salvation.
9:15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
9:16 The Lord is known by his acts of justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.* / *The Hebrew has Higgaion and Selah (words of uncertain meaning) here; Selah occurs also at the end of verse 20.
9:17 The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.
9:18 But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.
9:19 Arise, Lord, do not let mortals triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.
9:20 Strike them with terror, Lord; let the nations know they are only mortal.