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

¹ {To the Chanter upon Muthlabben, a Psalm of David} I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will speak of all thy marvelous works. ² I will be glad and rejoice in thee; yea, my songs will I make of thy name, O thou most highest.

³ While mine enemies are driven back, they fall and perish at thy presence. ⁴ For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou art set in the throne that judgest right. ⁵ Thou hast rebuked the heathen, and destroyed the ungodly; thou hast put out their name forever and ever. ⁶ O thou enemy, thy destructions are come to a perpetual end; even as the cities which thou hast destroyed, their memorial is perished with them.

⁷ But the LORD shall endure forever; he hath also prepared his seat for judgment. ⁸ For he shall judge the world in righteousness, and minister true judgment unto the people. ⁹ The LORD also will be a defense for the oppressed, even a refuge in due time of trouble. ¹⁰ And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou, LORD, hast never failed them that seek thee.

¹¹ O praise the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion; show the people of his doings. ¹² And why? For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.

¹³ Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death. ¹⁴ That I may show all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in thy salvation.

¹⁵ The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken. ¹⁶ The LORD is known to execute judgment; the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. Selah.

¹⁷ The wicked must be turned unto hell, and all the people that forget God. ¹⁸ For the poor shall not always be forgotten; the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish forever.

¹⁹ Arise, LORD, and let no man have the upper hand; let the Heathen be judged in thy sight. ²⁰ O LORD, put a schoolmaster over them, that the Heathen may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

¹ Why standest thou so far off, O LORD, and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble? ² While the ungodly hath the overhand, the poor must suffer persecution; let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined!

³ For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and speaketh good of the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. ⁴ The ungodly is so proud and full of indignation, that he careth not for God: neither is God in all his thoughts. ⁵ His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above, out of his sight. Therefore defieth he all his enemies. ⁶ For he hath said in his heart, "Tush, I shall never be cast down; there shall no harm happen unto me." ⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, deceit and fraud; under his tongue is travail and sorrow. ⁸ He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets, and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are set against the poor. ⁹ For he lieth waiting secretly; even as a lion lurketh he in his den, that he may ravish the poor. He doth ravish the poor when he getteth him into his net. ¹⁰ He falleth down, and humbleth himself, that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hands of his captains. ¹¹ He hath said in his heart, "Tush, God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face, so that he will never see it."

¹² Arise, O LORD God, and lift up thine hand; forget not the poor. ¹³ Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God, while he doth say in his heart, "Tush, thou God careth not for it?" ¹⁴ Surely thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong, that thou mayest take the matter into thy hand. The poor committeth himself unto thee, for thou art the helper of the friendless. ¹⁵ Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious; search out the wickedness which he hath done, that he may perish.

¹⁶ The LORD is King for ever and ever, and the Heathen are perished out of the land. ¹⁷ LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the poor; thou preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto, ¹⁸ to help the fatherless and the poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye then to my soul, that she should flee as a bird unto the hill?