Psalm 9:1-10

English Standard Version

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

^[a] To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben.^[b] A Psalm of David.

9 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your ^(A)wonderful deeds.
²I will be glad and ^(B)exult in you;
I will ^(C)sing praise to your name, ^(D)O Most High.

³When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before^[c] your presence.
⁴For you have ^(E)maintained my just cause;
you have ^(F)sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

⁵You have ^(G)rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
    you have ^(H)blotted out their name forever and ever.
⁶The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.

⁷But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
⁸and he ^(I)judges the world with righteousness;
he ^(J)judges the peoples with uprightness.

⁹The Lord is ^(K)a stronghold for ^(L)the oppressed,
a stronghold in ^(M)times of trouble.
¹⁰And those who ^(N)know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

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Footnotes

Psalm 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
Psalm 9:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 9:3 Or because of