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Psalm 9 · Book One · David

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

Acrostic · For the choirmaster

About this psalm

Psalms 9 and 10 share one alphabet between them: this half runs from the first Hebrew letter and stops partway, and the next psalm picks it up. Here the tone is confident. God has rebuked the heathen, the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands, and the needy shall not alway be forgotten. The title names a tune, The Death of the Son.

Read it with Psalm 10, which is the same prayer after the confidence runs out.

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One verse at a time · it stops at all 2 Selahs

¹I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart;I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.²I will be glad and rejoice in thee:I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.³When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.⁴For thou hast maintained my right and my cause;thou satest in the throne judging right.⁵Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.⁶O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end:and thou hast destroyed cities;their memorial is perished with them.⁷But the LORD shall endure for ever:he hath prepared his throne for judgment.⁸And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.⁹The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.¹⁰And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee:for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.¹¹Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion:declare among the people his doings.¹²When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them:he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.¹³Have mercy upon me, O LORD;consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:¹⁴That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion:I will rejoice in thy salvation.¹⁵The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made:in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.¹⁶The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth:the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion.

Selah

¹⁷The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.¹⁸For the needy shall not alway be forgotten:the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.¹⁹Arise, O LORD;let not man prevail:let the heathen be judged in thy sight.²⁰Put them in fear, O LORD:that the nations may know themselves to be but men.

Selah

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