Psalm 9:1-Psalm 11:1 - Celebration Of God's Justice
1 To the overseer upon the death of Laban, chanting of David. I will praise, O Jehovah, with all my heart; I will recount all thy wonderful works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will play on the harp to thy name, O Most High.
3 In the turning away of mine enemies backward, they shall be weak and perish from thy face. 4 For thou didst my judgment and my cause; thou satest upon the throne judging justice. 5 Thou didst rebuke the nations, thou didst destroy the unjust one, wiping off their name forever and ever. 6 O enemy! desolations were wholly finished, and thou didst tear down cities; their remembrance perished with them.
7 And Jehovah shall dwell forever: he prepared his throne for judgment 8 And he will judge the habitable globe in justice, he will judge peoples in uprightness. 9 And Jehovah will be a height for the oppressed one, a height for times in straits. 10 And they knowing thy name will trust in thee, for thou didst not forsake those seeking thee, O Jehovah.
11 Play on the harp to Jehovah dwelling in Zion: announce among the peoples his doings. 12 For he sought out bloods, be remembered them: he forget not the cry of the humble.
13 Compassionate me, O Jehovah: see my affliction from those hating me, thou lifting me up from the gates of death: 14 So that I shall recount all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
15 The nations sank into the pit they made: in the net they hid, their foot was taken by it 16 And Jehovah was known by the judgment he did: by the work of his hands the unjust was snared. Meditation. Silence.
17 The unjust shall be turned away into hades, all the nations forgetting God. 18 For the needy shall not be forgotten forever: the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.
19 Arise, O Jehovah; man shall not be strengthened: the nations shall be judged before thee. 20 Put fear to them, O Jehovah: the nations shall know they are man. Silence.
1 Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou stand afar off? wilt thou hide for times in straits? 2 In the pride of the unjust he will burn the poor: they shall be taken in the devices that they purposed.
3 For the unjust boasted upon the desire of his soul, and he blessed him plundering, despising Jehovah. 4 The unjust according to the height of his anger, will not seek: God is not in all his thoughts. 5 His ways will be in pain in all time; thy judgments high from before him: all his enemies he will puff at them. 6 Saying in his heart, I shall not be moved: to generation and generation for not in evil. 7 His mouth was filled with cursing and deceit and violence: under his tongue, trouble and vanity. 8 Sitting in ambush of the enclosures: in hiding-places he will slay the innocent: his eyes will be hid to the afflicted. 9 He will lie in wait in secret as the lion in her den: he will lie in wait to catch the poor one: he will catch the poor one in drawing him into his net 10 And crushing, he will bow down, and cast down the afflicted by his strong ones. 11 Saying in his heart, God forgat: he hid his face; not seeing forever.
12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thine hand: thou wilt not forget the poor. 13 For what did the unjust one despise God, saying in his heart, Thou wilt not search? 14 Thou sawest; for thou wilt look upon trouble and anger, to give with thine hand: the poor will be left to thee; thou wert the helper of the orphan. 15 Break the arm of the unjust and the evil one: thou wilt seek out his injustice; thou wilt not find.
16 Jehovah is King forever and ever: the nations perished from his land. 17 Thou heardest the desire of the poor, O Jehovah: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to attend. 18 To judge the orphan and the dejected, that the man of the earth shall no more add to make afraid.
1 To the overseer; of David. In Jehovah I put my trust: how will ye say to my soul, Wander ye to your mountain, little bird?