Psalm 9:1-20
To the director upon Muth-labʹben.* A melody of David.
א [ʼAʹleph]*
9 I will laud [you], O Jehovah, with all my heart;+I will declare all your wonderful works.+
2 I will rejoice and exult in you,+I will make melody to your name, O Most High.+
ב [Behth]
3 When my enemies turn back,+They will stumble and perish from before you.+
4 For you have executed my judgment and my cause;+You have sat on the throne judging with righteousness.+
ג [Giʹmel]
5 You have rebuked nations,+ you have destroyed the wicked one.+Their name you have wiped out to time indefinite, even forever.*+
6 O you enemy, [your] desolations have come to their perpetual finish,+And the cities that you have uprooted.+The very mention of them will certainly perish.+
ה [Heʼ]
7 As for Jehovah, he will sit to time indefinite,+Firmly establishing his throne for judgment itself.+
8 And he himself will judge the productive land* in righteousness;+He will judicially try national groups in uprightness.+
ו [Waw]
9 And Jehovah will become a secure height for anyone crushed,+A secure height in times of distress.+
10 And those knowing your name will trust in you,+For you will certainly not leave those looking for you, O Jehovah.+
ז [Zaʹyin]
11 Make melody, YOU people, to Jehovah, who is dwelling in Zion;+Tell among the peoples his deeds.+
12 For, when looking for bloodshed,+ he will certainly remember those very ones;+He is sure not to forget the outcry of the afflicted ones.+
ח [Chehth]
13 Show me favor, O Jehovah; see my affliction by those hating me,+O you who are lifting me up from the gates of death,+
14 In order that I may declare all your praiseworthy deeds+In the gates+ of the daughter of Zion,+That I may be joyful in your salvation.+
ט [Tehth]
15 The nations have sunk down into the pit that they have made;+In the net+ that they hid, their own foot has been caught.+
16 Jehovah is known by the judgment that he has executed.+By the activity of his own hands the wicked one has been ensnared.*+Hig·gaʹion.* Seʹlah.
י [Yohdh]
17 Wicked+ people will turn back to Sheʹol,*+Even all the nations forgetting God.*+
18 For not always will the poor one be forgotten,+Nor will the hope of the meek ones ever perish.+
כ [Kaph]
19 Do arise, O Jehovah! Let not mortal man prove superior in strength.+Let the nations be judged before your face.+
20 Do put fear into them,* O Jehovah,+That the nations may know that they are but mortal men.+ Seʹlah.
Footnotes
^ “Upon Muth-labben.” Heb., ʽal·muthʹ lab·benʹ, an unexplained Heb. expression, but translated by some as “concerning the death of the son.”
^ In M this psalm is linked with Ps 10 in alphabetic, or acrostic, arrangement with some letters omitted.
^ Or, “forever and ever.”
^ “Productive land.” Heb., te·velʹ; LXX, “the inhabited earth”; Vg, “the circle,” that is, of the earth.
^ “Higgaion.” A technical musical term, the meaning of which is uncertain.
^ “Has been ensnared,” by a change of vowel pointing; M, “is entrapping.”
^ “Sheol,” MTSy; Gr., haiʹden; Lat., in·ferʹnum. See App 4B.
^ “God.” Heb., ʼElo·himʹ.
^ “Do put a curse upon them,” by a correction of M.
