9 I will thank Yahweh with all my heart.
I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
² I will be glad and rejoice in you.
I will sing the praise of your name, O Most High.
³ When my enemies turn back,
they will stumble and perish because of your presence.
⁴ For you have maintained my just cause;
you have sat on the throne judging correctly.
⁵ You have rebuked the nations;
you have destroyed the wicked.
Their name you have blotted out
forever and ever.
⁶ The enemies are destroyed in ruins forever,
and you have uprooted their cities;
their very memory has perished.
⁷ But Yahweh sits enthroned forever.
He has established his throne for judgment.
⁸ And he will judge the world with righteousness.
He will judge the peoples with equity.
⁹ And Yahweh will be a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of distress.
¹⁰ And those who know your name will trust in you,
for you do not forsake those who seek you, O Yahweh.
¹¹ Sing praises to Yahweh who sits enthroned^[c] in Zion.
Tell his deeds among the peoples,
¹² for he who avenges bloodshed^[d] remembers them.
He does not forget the distressed cry of the afflicted.
¹³ Be gracious to me, O Yahweh.
See my suffering from those who hate me,
you who lift me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴ so that I may tell of all your praises.
In the gates of the daughter of Zion
let me rejoice in your salvation.
¹⁵ The nations have fallen in the pit that they made;
their foot is caught in the net that they hid.
¹⁶ Yahweh has made himself known;
he has executed judgment.
The wicked is snared by the work of his hands. Higgaion^[e] Selah
¹⁷ The wicked shall turn back to Sheol,
all the nations forgetting God,
¹⁸ for the needy shall not always be forgotten;
the hope of the poor shall never perish.
¹⁹ Rise up, O Yahweh, let not humans^[f] prevail;
let the nations be judged before you.
²⁰ O Yahweh, put them in fear.
Let the nations know they are merely human. Selah