1I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all thy wonderful works.
2I will be glad and exult in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou Most High.
3When mine enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at thy presence.
4For thou hast maintained my cause and my right; thou satest on the throne, that judgest righteousness.
5Thou hast rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever.
6The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and thou hast destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise,
7but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.
8And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness.
9The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.
10And let them that know thy name hope in thee: for thou, O Lord, hast not failed them that diligently seek thee.
11Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings among the nations.
12For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.
13Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction which I suffer of mine enemies, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
14that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in thy salvation.
15The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.
16The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause.
17Let sinners be driven away into Hades, even all the nations that forget God.
18For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever.
19Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before thee.
20Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause.
(Psalm 9a Note. - Here begins a change of numbers as compared with the Heb. which continues to Ps. 146, this psalm having no number, and the eleventh being called the tenth. The following verses 21-37 are numbered 1-18 in the original text. )
21Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why dost thou overlook us in times of need, in affliction?
22While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is Gr. inflamed, as in a fever. hotly pursued: the wicked are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.
23Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.
24The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his Or, anger. pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him.
25His ways are Gr. profaned. profane at all times; thy judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.
26For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, continuing without evil from generation to generation. Rom 8. 14.
27Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.
28He lies in wait with rich men in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are Gr. look. set against the poor.
29He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him after him: he will bring him down in his snare.
30He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.
31For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.
32Arise, O Lord God; let thy hand be lifted up: forget not the poor.
33Wherefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require it.
34Thou seest it; for thou dost observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into thy hands: the poor has been left to thee; thou wast a helper to the orphan.
35Break thou the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.
36The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish out his land.
37The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: thine ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart;
38to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.