# Psalm 9 To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. 
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1. I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. 
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2. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. 
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3. When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before your presence. 
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4. For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment. 
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5. You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever. 
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6. The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished. 
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7. But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice, 
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8. and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness. 
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9. The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. 
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10. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you. 
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11. Sing praises to the LORD, who sits enthroned in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds! 
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12. For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted. 
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13. Be gracious to me, O LORD! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death, 
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14. that I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation. 
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15. The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught. 
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16. The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah 
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17. The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God. 
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18. For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever. 
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19. Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you! 
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20. Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah 

(ESV)