Psalm 9  Modern English Version

³ When my enemies are turned back,
    they will stumble and perish at Your presence.
⁴ For You have maintained my right and my cause;
    You sat on the throne judging what is right.
⁵ You have rebuked the nations,
    You have destroyed the wicked,
    You have wiped out their name forever and ever.
⁶ O you enemy, destructions have come to you for a perpetual end.
    You have destroyed cities;
    their memory perished with them.

⁷ But the Lord remains forever;
    He has established His throne for judgment.
⁸ He will judge the world in righteousness;
    He will give judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
⁹ The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed,
    a refuge in times of trouble.
¹⁰ Those who know Your name will put their trust in You,
    for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord who dwells in Zion;
    declare His deeds among the people.
¹² He who avenges deaths remembers them;
    He does not forget the cry of the humble.

¹³ Be gracious to me, O Lord; consider my trouble from those who hate me,
    O You who lifts me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴ that I may recount all Your praise
    in the gates of the daughter of Zion,
    that I may rejoice in Your salvation.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made;
    their own foot is caught in the net which they hid.
¹⁶ The Lord is known by the judgment that He executes;
    the wicked one is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah
¹⁷ The wicked will be turned to Sheol,
    and all the nations that forget God.
¹⁸ For the needy will not always be forgotten,
    nor will the hope of the poor perish forever.

¹⁹ Arise, O Lord, may mortals not prevail;
    let the nations be judged in Your sight.
²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord,
    that the nations themselves may know they are mortals. Selah