UST PSA Chapter 9

A psalm written by David for the choir director, in the ‘Muth Labben’ style

9 Yahweh, I will praise you with all of my inner being.

I will tell others about all the wonderful things that you have done.

2 You make me extremely happy, so I will sing to celebrate what you, who are much greater than all other gods, have done.

3 When my foes flee from your righteous anger,

they trip and fall. You kill them just by being near them.

4 You are angry because you have found my legal case to be righteous and my enemies’ to be wicked.

You sit on a throne like a king judging everything rightly.

5 You reprimanded the people from other nations, and killed the wicked people;

you eradicate them so thoroughly no one will ever remember their names.

6 Nothing remains of our enemies except the ruins

of their cities which you permanently destroyed.

No one even remembers those enemies anymore.

7 But Yahweh rules forever.

He is prepared to judge from his throne.

8 He will judge all the people in the world justly;

he will be fair when he judges the people of every nation.

9 Let Yahweh be like a fortress for those whom oppressors oppress;

like a strong fort for them when they have trouble.

10 Those who know your reputation should trust you;

because you, Yahweh, never abandon those who come to you for help.

11 Yahweh rules on Mount Zion;

praise him by singing to him!

Tell people from every nation the marvelous things that he has done.

12 Do this because Yahweh always remembers to repay any person who murders another person.

When someone's enemy has oppressed him, and when that person calls to Yahweh to help him, Yahweh does not forget to avenge him.

13 Yahweh, act mercifully toward me!

You who rescue me when I am almost dead, look at the ways that my enemies have oppressed me.

14 I want to live in order to tell all your people at the entrance to Jerusalem all the reasons to praise you

and to rejoice because you rescued me.

15 When you rescue me it is like wicked people of many nations had dug a pit for me to fall into,

but have fallen into that same pit,

or like they hid a net to catch me,

but their feet have been caught in that same net.

16 So you allow the traps that wicked people make to trap them.

Because of that, people can discover that you, Yahweh, are just. Higgaion Selah

17 Wicked people will flee from you back to the place where dead people stay.

There are people there from every nation, people who have forgotten to worship the true God.

18 This all happens because there is a certainly time when God will remember to take care of poor people.

It is good for oppressed people to expect him to rescue them because he will do it one day.

19 Yahweh, do something! Do not let evil people win!

Bring them to your court and judge them!

20 Yahweh, teach them that they must be afraid of you and honor you.

Cause the rulers of nations to know that they are mortal. Selah