Psalm 9:1-Psalm 11:1 - Celebration Of God's Justice
1 I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will tell of all thy marvellous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High
3 because my enemies are turned back; they shall fall and perish at thy presence. 4 For thou hast accomplished my judgment and my cause; thou didst sit in the throne judging according to righteousness. 5 Thou hast reprehended the Gentiles, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. 6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and the cities that thou hast destroyed; their memorial is perished with them.
7 But the LORD shall endure for ever; he has prepared his throne for judgment. 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall judge the peoples in uprightness. 9 The LORD also will be a refuge to the humble, a refuge for the time of trouble. 10 And those that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, O LORD, hast not forsaken those that seek thee.
11 Sing unto the LORD, he who dwells in Zion; declare among the people his doings. 12 When he makes requirement for blood, he remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the humble.
13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from those that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: 14 that I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy saving health.
15 The Gentiles are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid their own foot is taken. 16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he has executed; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion (meditate on this for ever). Selah.
17 The wicked shall be put into Sheol, all the Gentiles that forget God. 18 For the humble shall not always be forgotten: the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight. 20 Put fear into them, O LORD: that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
1 Why dost thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why dost thou hide thyself in times of trouble? 2 The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors. 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, does not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he puffs at them. 6 He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, for I shall never be in adversity. 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. 8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places he murders the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor. 9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he catches the poor when he draws him into his net. 10 He crouches and hides himself, and many are those who fall under his power. 11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; he hides his face; he will never see it.
12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand; forget not the humble. 13 In what does the wicked irritate God? He has said in his heart, Thou wilt not require accountability. 14 Thou hast seen it, for thou dost behold mischief and spite to requite it with thy hand: the poor commits himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man; seek out his wickedness until thou find none.
16 The LORD is King for ever and ever; the Gentiles are perished out of his land. 17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart; thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: 18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed that the man of the earth may no longer oppress.
1 I put my trust in the LORD put I: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?