# Psalm 9 (New King James Version)
Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Lord's Righteous Judgments

##### Chapter 9
###### 1 I will praise _You,_ O Lord, with my whole heart;  
I will tell of all Your marvelous works.  

###### 2 I will be glad and rejoice in You;  
I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

###### 3 When my enemies turn back,  
They shall fall and perish at Your presence.  

###### 4 For You have maintained my right and my cause;  
You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.  

###### 5 You have rebuked the nations,  
You have destroyed the wicked;  
You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

###### 6 O enemy, destructions are finished forever!  
And you have destroyed cities;  
Even their memory has perished.  

###### 7 But the Lord shall endure forever;  
He has prepared His throne for judgment.  

###### 8 He shall judge the world in righteousness,  
And He shall administer judgment for the peoples in uprightness.

###### 9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed,  
A refuge in times of trouble.  

###### 10 And those who know Your name will put their trust in You;  
For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

###### 11 Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion!  
Declare His deeds among the people.  

###### 12 When He avenges blood, He remembers them;  
He does not forget the cry of the humble.

###### 13 Have mercy on me, O Lord!  
Consider my trouble from those who hate me,  
You who lift me up from the gates of death,  

###### 14 That I may tell of all Your praise  
In the gates of the daughter of Zion.  
I will rejoice in Your salvation.

###### 15 The nations have sunk down in the pit _which_ they made;  
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.  

###### 16 The Lord is known _by_ the judgment He executes;  
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.  
Meditation. _Selah_

###### 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell,  
_And_ all the nations that forget God.  

###### 18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten;  
The expectation of the poor shall _not_ perish forever.

###### 19 Arise, O Lord,  
Do not let man prevail;  
Let the nations be judged in Your sight.  

###### 20 Put them in fear, O Lord,  
_That_ the nations may know themselves _to be but_ men. _Selah_