Psalm 9 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

Psa 9:1 [fn] To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben.[fn] A Psalm of David.
I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

Psa 9:2

Psa 9:2I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Psa 9:3

Psa 9:3When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before[fn] your presence.

Psa 9:4

Psa 9:4For you have maintained my just cause;
you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

Psa 9:5

Psa 9:5You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have blotted out their name forever and ever.

Psa 9:6

Psa 9:6The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.

Psa 9:7

Psa 9:7But the LORD sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,

Psa 9:8

Psa 9:8and he judges the world with righteousness;
he judges the peoples with uprightness.

Psa 9:9

Psa 9:9The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.

Psa 9:10

Psa 9:10And those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Psa 9:11

Psa 9:11Sing praises to the LORD, who sits enthroned in Zion!
Tell among the peoples his deeds!

Psa 9:12

Psa 9:12For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Psa 9:13

Psa 9:13Be gracious to me, O LORD!
See my affliction from those who hate me,
O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

Psa 9:14

Psa 9:14that I may recount all your praises,
that in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may rejoice in your salvation.

Psa 9:15

Psa 9:15The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;
in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.

Psa 9:16

Psa 9:16The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.[fn] Selah

Psa 9:17

Psa 9:17The wicked shall return to Sheol,
all the nations that forget God.

Psa 9:18

Psa 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

Psa 9:19

Psa 9:19Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail;
let the nations be judged before you!

Psa 9:20

Psa 9:20Put them in fear, O LORD!
Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah

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ESV Footnotes

(9:1)

Psalms 9 and 10 together follow an acrostic pattern, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they form one psalm

(9:1)

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(9:16)

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