Psalms 9 / 150
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(I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds) To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben.Probably a musical or liturgical term A Psalm of David.
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
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I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
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When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before your presence.
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For you have maintained my just cause;
you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
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You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
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The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.
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But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
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and he judges the world with righteousness;
he judges the peoples with uprightness.
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The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
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And those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
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Sing praises to the Lord, who sits enthroned in Zion!
Tell among the peoples his deeds!
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For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
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Be gracious to me, O Lord!
See my affliction from those who hate me,
O you who lift me up from the gates of death,
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that I may recount all your praises,
that in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may rejoice in your salvation.
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The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;
in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
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The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah
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The wicked shall return to Sheol,
all the nations that forget God.
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For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.
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Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail;
let the nations be judged before you!
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Put them in fear, O Lord!
Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah