Psalm 9-11

New King James Version

³ When my enemies turn back,
They shall fall and perish at Your presence.
⁴ For You have maintained my right and my cause;
You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.
⁵ You have rebuked the ^[b]nations,
You have destroyed the wicked;
You have ^(C)blotted out their name forever and ever.

⁶ O enemy, destructions are finished forever!
And you have destroyed cities;
Even their memory has ^(D)perished.
^7 (E)But the Lord shall endure forever;
He has prepared His throne for judgment.
^8 (F)He shall judge the world in righteousness,
And He shall administer judgment for the peoples in uprightness.

⁹ The Lord also will be a ^(G)refuge^[c] for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of trouble.
¹⁰ And those who ^(H)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!
^(I)Declare His deeds among the people.
^12 (J)When He avenges blood, He remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the ^[d]humble.

¹³ Have mercy on me, O Lord!
Consider my trouble from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴ That I may tell of all Your praise
In the gates of ^[e]the daughter of Zion.
I will ^(K)rejoice in Your salvation.

^15 (L)The ^[f]nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.
¹⁶ The Lord is ^(M)known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
^(N)Meditation.^[g] Selah

¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the ^[h]nations ^(O)that forget God.
^18 (P)For the needy shall not always be forgotten;
^(Q)The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

¹⁹ Arise, O Lord,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the ^[i]nations be judged in Your sight.
²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord,
That the ^[j]nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah

³ For the wicked ^(S)boasts of his heart’s desire;
^[l]He ^(T)blesses the greedy and renounces the Lord.
⁴ The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God;
^[m]God is in none of his ^(U)thoughts.

⁵ His ways ^[n]are always prospering;
Your judgments are far above, out of his sight;
As for all his enemies, he sneers at them.
^6 (V)He has said in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
^(W)I shall never be in adversity.”
^7 (X)His mouth is full of cursing and ^(Y)deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity.

⁸ He sits in the lurking places of the villages;
In the secret places he murders the innocent;
His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless.
⁹ He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den;
He lies in wait to catch the poor;
He catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
¹⁰ So ^[o]he crouches, he lies low,
That the helpless may fall by his ^[p]strength.
¹¹ He has said in his heart,
“God has forgotten;
He hides His face;
He will never see.”

¹² Arise, O Lord!
O God, ^(Z)lift up Your hand!
Do not forget the ^(AA)humble.
¹³ Why do the wicked renounce God?
He has said in his heart,
“You will not require an account.”

¹⁴ But You have ^(AB)seen, for You observe trouble and grief,
To repay it by Your hand.
The helpless ^(AC)commits^[q] himself to You;
^(AD)You are the helper of the fatherless.
¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man;
Seek out his wickedness until You find none.

^16 (AE)The Lord is King forever and ever;
The nations have perished out of His land.
¹⁷ Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will prepare their heart;
You will cause Your ear to hear,
¹⁸ To ^[r]do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
That the man of the earth may ^[s]oppress no more.

⁴ The Lord is in His holy temple,
The Lord’s ^(AI)throne is in heaven;
^(AJ)His eyes behold,
His eyelids test the sons of men.
⁵ The Lord ^(AK)tests the righteous,
But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
⁶ Upon the wicked He will rain coals;
Fire and brimstone and a burning wind
^(AL)Shall be ^[u]the portion of their cup.

⁷ For the Lord is righteous,
He ^(AM)loves righteousness;
^[v]His countenance beholds the upright.