Psalms 9

¹Unto the end, for the secrets of the son, the Psalm of David.

²I will confess to thee, o Lord, with all my heart: I will tell all thy marvelous things.

³I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, o most High.

⁴In turning mine enemy backward: they shall be weakened, and perish before my face.

⁵Because thou hast done my judgment and my cause: thou hast sit upon the throne which judgest justice.

⁶Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the impious hath perished: their name thou hast destroyed for ever, and for ever and ever.

⁷The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed.

⁸Their memory hath perished with a sound: and our Lord abideth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in judgment:

⁹and he will judge the whole world in equity, he will judge the people in justice.

¹⁰And our Lord is made a refuge for the poor: an helper in opportunities, in tribulation.

¹¹And let them hope in thee that know thy name: because thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, o Lord.

¹²Sing to our Lord, which dwelleth in Sion: declare his studies among the Gentiles.

¹³Because requiring blood he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

¹⁴Have mercy on me, o Lord: See my humiliation by my enemies.

¹⁵Which exaltest me from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

¹⁶I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles are fastened in the destruction, which they made. In this snare, which they hid, is their foot taken.

¹⁷Our Lord shall be known doing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his own hands.

¹⁸Let sinners be turned into hell, all nations that forget God.

¹⁹Because to the end there shall not be oblivion of the poor man: the patience of the poor, shall not perish in the end.

²⁰Arise Lord, let not man be strengthened: Let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.

²¹Appoint Lord a Law-giver over them: that the Gentiles may know that they be men.

²²Why Lord hast thou departed far off, despisest in opportunities, in tribulation?

²³Whilst the impious is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.

²⁴Because the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.

²⁵The sinner hath exasperated our Lord, according to the multitude of his wrath he shall not seek.

²⁶There is no God in his sight: his ways are defiled at all time. Thy judgments are taken away from his face: he shall rule over all his enemies.

²⁷For he hath said in his heart: I will not be moved from generation unto generation without evil.

²⁸Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and guile: under his tongue labour and sorrow.

²⁹He sitteth in wait with the rich in secret places, to kill the innocent.

³⁰His eyes look upon the poor: he lieth in wait in secret, as a lion in his den.

³¹He lieth in wait to take the poor man violently, violently to take the poor man whilst he draweth him. In his snare he will humble himself, and shall fall when he shall have dominion over the poor.

³²For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face not to see for ever.

³³Arise Lord God, let thy hand be exalted: forget not the poor.

³⁴Wherefore hath the impious provoked God? For he hath said in his heart: He will not enquire.

³⁵Thou seest, that thou considerest labour & sorrow: that thou mayest deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor left: to the orphan thou wilt be an helper.

³⁶Break the arm of the sinner and malignant: his sin shall be sought, and shall not be found.

³⁷Our Lord shall reign for ever, and for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish from his land.

³⁸Our Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard the preparation of their heart.

³⁹To judge for the pupil and the humble, that man add no more to magnify himself upon the earth.