Psalm 9
Thanksgiving for God's
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To the chief Musician upon
Muthlab'ben, A Psalm of
David. |
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I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart;
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I will show forth all thy marvelous
works. |
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I will be glad and rejoice in thee:
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I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.
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When mine enemies are turned back,
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they shall fall and perish at thy
presence. |
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For thou hast maintained my right and my
cause;
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thou satest in the throne judging right.
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Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast
destroyed the wicked,
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thou hast put out their name for ever and
ever. |
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O thou enemy, destructions are come to a
perpetual end:
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and thou hast destroyed cities; |
their memorial is perished with them.
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But the LORD shall
endure for ever:
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he hath prepared his throne for
judgment. |
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And he shall judge the world in
righteousness,
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he shall minister judgment to the people in
uprightness.
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The LORD also will
be a refuge for the oppressed,
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a refuge in times of
trouble. |
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And they that know thy name will put
their trust in thee:
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for thou, LORD, hast not
forsaken them that seek thee.
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Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion:
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declare among the people his
doings. |
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When he maketh inquisition for blood, he
remembereth them:
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he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
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13 |
Have mercy upon me, O LORD;
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consider my trouble which I suffer of them
that hate me, |
thou that liftest me up from the gates of
death: |
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that I may show forth all thy praise
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in the gates of the daughter of Zion: |
I will rejoice in thy salvation.
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The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made:
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in the net which they hid is their own foot
taken. |
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The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth:
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the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
Higgaion.
Selah. |
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The wicked shall be turned into hell,
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and all the nations that forget
God. |
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For the needy shall not always be
forgotten:
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the expectation of the poor shall not perish
for ever.
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Arise, O LORD; let
not man prevail:
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let the heathen be judged in thy
sight. |
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Put them in fear, O LORD:
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that the nations may know themselves to be
but men.
Selah. |
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