9:1 I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart I will tell of all your wonders.
9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in you I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
9:3 My enemies turn back they stumble and perish before you.
9:4 For you have upheld my right and my cause you have sat on your throne, judging righteously.
9:5 You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
9:6 Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy, you have uprooted their cities even the memory of them has perished.
9:7 The LORD reigns for ever he has established his throne for judgment.
9:8 He will judge the world in righteousness he will govern the peoples with justice.
9:9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
9:10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion proclaim among the nations what he has done.
9:12 For he who avenges blood remembers he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
9:13 LORD, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
9:14 that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.
9:15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
9:16 The LORD is known by his justice the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion. [Or Meditation possibly a musical notation] Selah
9:17 The wicked return to the grave, [Hebrew: Sheol] all the nations that forget God.
9:18 But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.
9:19 Arise, O LORD, let not man triumph let the nations be judged in your presence.
9:20 Strike them with terror, O LORD let the nations know they are but men. Selah10 [PSALMS 9 AND 10 MAY HAVE BEEN ORIGINALLY A SINGLE ACROSTIC POEM, THE STANZAS OF WHICH BEGIN WITH THE SUCCESSIVE LETTERS OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET. IN THE SEPTUAGINT THEY CONST