Psalmi_009 Chapter 1

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I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all thy wonderful works.

I will be glad and exult in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou Most High.

When mine enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at thy presence.

For thou hast maintained my cause and my right; thou satest on the throne, that judgest righteousness.

Thou hast rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever.

The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and thou hast destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise,

but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.

And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness.

The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.

And let them that know thy name hope in thee: for thou, O Lord, hast not failed them that diligently seek thee.

Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings among the nations.

For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction which I suffer of mine enemies, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in thy salvation.

The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.

The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause.

Let sinners be driven away into Hades, even all the nations that forget God.

For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever.

Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before thee.

Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause.

Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why dost thou overlook us in times of need, in affliction?

While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued: the wicked are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.

The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him.

His ways are profane at all times; thy judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.

For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, continuing without evil from generation to generation.

Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

He lies in wait with rich men in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor.

He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him after him: he will bring him down in his snare.

He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.

For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.