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9:1  To the Chief Musician; on Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks and praise the Lord, with all my heart; I will tell aloud all Your wonders and marvelous deeds.
9:2  I will rejoice and exult in you; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
9:3  When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish before You.
9:4  For You have maintained my right and my cause; You have sat on the throne judging righteously.
9:5  You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked and unrepentant; You have wiped out their name forever and ever.
9:6  The enemy has been cut off and has vanished in everlasting ruins, You have uprooted their cities; The very memory of them has perished.
9:7  But the Lord will remain and sit enthroned forever; He has prepared and established His throne for judgment.
9:8  And He will judge the world in righteousness; He will execute judgment for the nations with fairness (equity).
9:9  The Lord also will be a refuge and a stronghold for the oppressed, A refuge in times of trouble;
9:10  And those who know Your name [who have experienced Your precious mercy] will put their confident trust in You, For You, O Lord, have not abandoned those who seek You.
9:11  Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion; Declare among the peoples His [great and wondrous] deeds.
9:12  For He who avenges blood [unjustly shed] remembers them (His people); He does not forget the cry of the afflicted and abused.
9:13  Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord; See how I am afflicted by those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,
9:14  That I may tell aloud all Your praises, That in the gates of the daughter of Zion (Jerusalem) I may rejoice in Your salvation and Your help.
9:15  The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made; In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
9:16  The Lord has made Himself known; He executes judgment; The wicked are trapped by the work of their own hands. Higgaion (meditation) Selah.
9:17  The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), Even all the nations who forget God.
9:18  For the poor will not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the burdened perish forever.
9:19  Arise, O Lord, do not let man prevail; Let the nations be judged before You.
9:20  Put them in [reverent] fear of You, O Lord, So that the nations may know they are but [frail and mortal] men. Selah.