For the end, a Psalm of David, concerning the secrets of the Son. I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all your wonderful works.

I will be glad and exult in you: I will sing to your name, O you Most High.

When my enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at your presence.

For you have maintained my cause and my right; you sat on the throne, that judge righteousness.

You have rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; you have blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever.

The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and you have 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 your name hope in you: for you, O Lord, have not failed them that diligently seek you.

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 my enemies, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

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

Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause. (Psalm 9a)

Why stand you afar off, O Lord? [why] do you 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; your 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 kill 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.

Arise, O Lord God; let your hand be lifted up: forget not the poor.

Therefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require [it].

You see [it]; for you do observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into your hands: the poor has been left to you; you were a helper to the orphan.

Break you the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.

The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: you⌃ Gentiles shall perish out his land.

The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: your ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart;

to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.