Psalm 9:1-Psalm 11:1 - Celebration Of God's Justice
1 [To the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Death of the Son." A Psalm of David.] I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O most High.
3 When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence. 4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right. 5 You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name forever and ever. 6 O you enemy, destructions are come to an everlasting end: and you have destroyed cities; their memory is perished with them.
7 But the LORD shall endure forever: he has prepared his throne for judgment. 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. 9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. 10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.
11 Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion: declare among the people his doings. 12 When he avenges blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.
13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death: 14 That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.
15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
17 The wicked shall be turned into sheol, and all the nations that forget God. 18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in your sight. 20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
1 Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble? 2 The wicked in his pride does persecute 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, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts. 5 His ways are always prosperous; your judgments are far above, out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he sneers 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 does he murder 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 does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net. 10 He crouches, and lies low, that the poor may fall by his strength. 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 your hand: forget not the humble. 13 Why does the wicked renounce God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it. 14 You have seen it: for you behold mischief and spite, to repay it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none.
16 The LORD is King forever and ever: the nations are perished out of his land. 17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear: 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?