Psalm 9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ When my enemies turned back,
    they stumbled and perished before you.
⁴ For you have maintained my just cause;
    you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.

⁵ You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked;
    you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
⁶ The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you have rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.

⁷ But the Lord sits enthroned forever,
    he has established his throne for judgment.
⁸ He judges the world with righteousness;
    he judges the peoples with equity.

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

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion.
    Declare his deeds among the peoples.
¹² For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
    he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³ Be gracious to me, O Lord.
    See what I suffer from those who hate me;
    you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴ so that I may recount all your praises,
    and, in the gates of daughter Zion,
    rejoice in your deliverance.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;
    in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.
¹⁶ The Lord has made himself known, he has executed judgment;
    the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.Higgaion. Selah

¹⁷ The wicked shall depart to Sheol,
    all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
    nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

¹⁹ Rise up, O Lord! Do not let mortals prevail;
    let the nations be judged before you.
²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord;
    let the nations know that they are only human.Selah