Psalm 9
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Psalm 9
Yahweh Will Judge the World in Righteousness
For the choir director. #9:0 Or According to the Death of the Son; possibly a title for a tuneAlmuth-labben. A Psalm of David.
Aleph
1 # 9:1 This poem loosely follows an acrostic pattern I will give thanks to Yahweh with all my heart;
I will recount all Your #9:1 Or miracleswondrous deeds.
Aleph
2I 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.
4For You have maintained my #9:4 Or rightjustice and my cause;
You have sat on the throne #9:4 Or a righteous Judgejudging righteously.
Gimel
5You have rebuked the nations, You have made the wicked perish;
You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
He
6 # 9:6 Or O enemy, desolations are finished forever; And their cities You have plucked up The enemy has come to an end in perpetual #9:6 Or waste placesruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very memory of them has perished.
Vav
7¶But Yahweh #9:7 Or sits as kingabides forever;
He has established His throne for judgment,
Vav
8And 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 troubledistress;
Vav
10And #9:10 Or let those...name putthose 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.
12For He who #9:12 Avenges bloodshedrequires blood remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
Heth
13Be gracious to me, O Yahweh;
See my affliction from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,
14That I may recount all Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may rejoice in Your #9:14 Or deliverancesalvation.
Teth
15The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16Yahweh 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 meditationHiggaion #9:16 Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical InterludeSelah.
Yodh
17¶The wicked will #9:17 Or turnreturn to Sheol,
Even all the nations who forget God.
Kaph
18For the needy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.
19Arise, O Yahweh, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged before You.
20Put them in fear, O Yahweh;
Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.
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