Psalm 9

New Coverdale Version

I will give thanks unto you, O Lord, with my whole heart; * I will speak of all your marvelous works.

I will be glad and rejoice in you; * indeed, my songs will I sing of your Name, O Most High.

When my enemies are driven back, * they shall fall and perish at your presence;

For you have maintained my right and my cause; * you sit on your throne judging right.

You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the ungodly; * you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.

As for the enemy, their destruction has come; they are in perpetual ruin; * like the cities which you have destroyed, their memory has perished with them.

But the Lord sits enthroned for ever; * he has prepared his seat for judgment.

For he shall judge the world in righteousness, * and minister true judgment to the peoples.

The Lord will be a defense for the oppressed, * even a refuge in the time of trouble;

And those who know your Name will put their trust in you, * for you, Lord, have never failed those who seek you.

O praise the Lord who dwells in Zion; * tell the peoples what things he has done.

For when he takes vengeance for blood, he remembers them, * and forgets not the cry of the poor.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider the trouble I suffer from those who hate me, * O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

That I may tell of all your praises within the gates of the daughter of Zion; * I will rejoice in your salvation.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; * in the same net which they hid secretly is their foot caught.

The Lord is known to execute judgment; * the ungodly are trapped in the works of their own hands.

The wicked shall return to the grave, * even all the peoples that forget God.

For the poor shall not always be forgotten; * the patient hope of the meek shall not perish for ever.

Rise up, O Lord, and let them not have the upper hand; * let the nations be judged in your sight.

Put them in fear, O Lord, * that the nations may know themselves to be merely human.