Thematic Bible

Psalm 9:1

I will give thanks and praise the Lord, with all my heart;
I will tell aloud all Your wonders and marvelous deeds.

Psalm 9:2


I will rejoice and exult in you;
I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 9:3


When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish before You.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 9:4


For You have maintained my right and my cause;
You have sat on the throne judging righteously.

Psalm 9:5


You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked and unrepentant;
You have wiped out their name forever and ever.

Psalm 9:6


The enemy has been cut off and has vanished in everlasting ruins,
You have uprooted their cities;
The very memory of them has perished.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 9:7


But the Lord will remain and sit enthroned forever;
He has prepared and established His throne for judgment.

Psalm 9:8


And He will judge the world in righteousness;
He will execute judgment for the nations with fairness (equity).
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 9:9


The Lord also will be a refuge and a stronghold for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of trouble;

Psalm 9:10


And those who know Your name [who have experienced Your precious mercy] will put their confident trust in You,
For You, O Lord, have not abandoned those who seek You.

Psalm 9:11


Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion;
Declare among the peoples His [great and wondrous] deeds.

Psalm 9:12


For He who avenges blood [unjustly shed] remembers them (His people);
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted and abused.

Psalm 9:13


Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord;
See how I am afflicted by those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,

Psalm 9:14


That I may tell aloud all Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion (Jerusalem)
I may rejoice in Your salvation and Your help.

Psalm 9:15


The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

Psalm 9:16


The Lord has made Himself known;
He executes judgment;
The wicked are trapped by the work of their own hands. Higgaion (meditation) Selah.

Psalm 9:17


The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.

Psalm 9:18


For the poor will not always be forgotten,
Nor the hope of the burdened perish forever.

Psalm 9:19


Arise, O Lord, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged before You.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 9:20


Put them in [reverent] fear of You, O Lord,
So that the nations may know they are but [frail and mortal] men. Selah.