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Psalm 9

The TorahRooted Bible (TRB), translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek.

Yahweh, righteous judge of the nations

1 I will give thanks to Yahweh with all my heart; I will recount all Your wonderful deeds. 2 I will be glad and exult in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High. 3 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before You. 4 For You have upheld my justice and my cause; You have sat on the throne as a righteous judge.

5 You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have blotted out their name forever and ever. 6 The enemy has come to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities You have uprooted; the very memory of them has perished.

7 But Yahweh sits enthroned forever; He has established His throne for judgment, 8 and He will judge the world in righteousness; He will judge the peoples with uprightness. 9 Yahweh will be a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. 10 And those who know Your name will trust in You, for You, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek You.

11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion; declare His deeds among the peoples. 12 For He who avenges blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the humble.

13 Be gracious to me, Yahweh; see my affliction from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death, 14 so that I may recount all Your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion and rejoice in Your salvation.

15 The nations have sunk into the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot is caught. 16 Yahweh has made Himself known; He has executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. 17 The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget Elohim. 18 For the needy will not always be forgotten, nor will the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

19 Arise, Yahweh! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before You. 20 Put them in fear, Yahweh; let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.

Notes

  • 9:1 Title: "Muth-labben" (al-mut labben) is of uncertain meaning. Read as it stands it is "according to 'Death of the son,'" perhaps the name of a known tune; some divide the letters differently and connect it with alamot (title of Psalm 46), and the ancient Greek translation read "concerning the hidden things of the son."
  • 9:16 "Higgaion" (higgayon) is related to hagah, "meditate, murmur" (see 1:2). Standing here beside Selah it is probably a musical direction, perhaps a resounding or a quiet interlude; in 92:3 the same word is the sounding of the lyre.
  • 9:20 Psalms 9 and 10 together form an alphabetic acrostic, though an incomplete one: roughly every second verse begins with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet, starting with alef in 9:1, with some letters missing or out of order, especially in Psalm 10. Psalm 10 has no title, and the ancient Greek and Latin translations count the two as a single psalm, so many scholars think they were first composed as one poem; this is also why most psalm numbers in those translations are one lower than in the Hebrew.

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