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Psalm

Psalms 9–10

Psalm 9:1-10:18
To the conductor; over Muth-labben. A melody of David. 1I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will recount all your wonders. 2I will rejoice and exult in you; I will sing your name, O Most High. 3When my enemies turn back, they will stumble and perish from your presence. 4For you executed my judgment and my cause; you sat on the throne judging righteously. 5You rebuked the nations; you destroyed the wicked; you wiped out their name forever and ever. 6The enemy came to an end in desolations forever; you uprooted cities; their memory perished with them. 7But the LORD will dwell forever; he established his throne for judgment. 8He will judge the world with righteousness; he will judge the peoples with uprightness. 9The LORD will be a high refuge for the crushed, a high refuge in times of dearth. 10Those who know your name will trust in you, for you have not forsaken those who seek you, O LORD. 11Sing to the LORD who dwells in Zion; declare his deeds among the peoples. 12For he who seeks blood remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted and poor. 13Be gracious to me, O LORD; see my affliction from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death. 14That I may recount all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion and rejoice in your salvation. 15The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their foot was caught. 16The LORD is known by the judgment he has executed; the wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. 17The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God. 18For the needy will not be forgotten forever, nor will the hope of the poor perish forever. 19Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you. 20Put fear upon them, O LORD; let the nations know that they are but man. Selah.
Chapter 10
1Why, O LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of dearth? 2In the pride of the wicked he hotly pursues the afflicted; let them be caught in the plots that they have devised. 3For the wicked boasts of the desire of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD. 4In the height of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his plots are, There is no God. 5His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he sneers at them. 6He says in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation I shall not meet adversity. 7His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and iniquity. 8He sits in ambush in the villages; in the hiding places he kills the innocent; his eyes stealthily watch for the helpless. 9He lies in wait in the hiding place like a lion in his lair; he lies in wait to catch the afflicted; he catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net. 10The helpless are crushed and collapse; they fall under his mighty ones. 11He says in his heart, God has forgotten; he has hidden his face; he will never see it. 12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand; do not forget the afflicted. 13Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, You will not call to account? 14You see it, for you yourself note trouble and vexation, to take it into your hand; the helpless commits himself to you; you have been the helper of the orphan. 15Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer; call his wickedness to account until you find none. 16The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land. 17O LORD, you have heard the desire of the poor; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear. 18To judge the orphan and the crushed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
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