Psalm 9:1-Psalm 11:1 - Celebration Of God's Justice

¹ I will give you praise, O Lord, with all my heart; I will make clear all the wonder of your works. ² I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.

³ When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you. ⁴ For you gave approval to my right and my cause; you were seated in your high place judging in righteousness. ⁵ You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever. ⁶ You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

⁷ But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging. ⁸ And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples. ⁹ The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble; ¹⁰ And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.

¹¹ Make songs of praise to the Lord, whose house is in Zion: make his doings clear to the people. ¹² When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

¹³ Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death; ¹⁴ So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.

¹⁵ The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken. ¹⁶ The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

¹⁷ The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld. ¹⁸ For the poor will not be without help; the hopes of those in need will not be crushed for ever.

¹⁹ Up! O Lord; let not man overcome you: let the nations be judged before you. ²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)

¹ Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble? ² The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

³ For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him. ⁴ The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God. ⁵ His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him. ⁶ He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble. ⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts. ⁸ He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor. ⁹ He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net. ¹⁰ The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones. ¹¹ He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

¹² Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor. ¹³ Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it? ¹⁴ You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father. ¹⁵ Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.

¹⁶ The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations are gone from his land. ¹⁷ Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing: ¹⁸ To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

¹ In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?