Psalm 9

¹²I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your name forever.

²⁴Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.

¹Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

¹A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.

²Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

¹Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul; all that is within me, bless His holy name.

²Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds—

⁷to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works.

¹⁸May they know that You alone, whose name is the Lord, are Most High over all the earth.

¹¹But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.

¹⁷I will thank the Lord for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

⁷The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.

⁹For You, O Lord, are Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.

⁴Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

⁹They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

¹¹Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.

¹²And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,

¹³and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.

⁷You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?

¹⁶Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.

²As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

¹²I know that the Lord upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.

²³When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

⁹before the Lord, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.

⁴but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

⁸God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy throne.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.

⁷The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

¹⁵And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

³Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the Lord of Hosts.

¹⁴Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

⁹The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

¹⁰Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

¹³But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the Lord’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.

²²“I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the Lord.

²³“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of Hosts.

²⁶The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

⁸Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.

⁹Whatever you plot against the Lord, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.

¹⁰For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

¹⁶and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O Lord, until the people You have bought pass by.

¹⁹The Lord has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all.

⁸Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

¹¹Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.

¹²But You, O Lord, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.

⁸Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

¹³before the Lord, for He is coming—He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.

¹²And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.

¹³The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.

⁹before the Lord, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.

³¹For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

¹⁶on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.

⁵But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

⁶God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”

¹⁰The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

¹He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

²I will say to the Lord, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

⁷The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.

⁷You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

¹For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.

⁸Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah

¹⁴“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.

¹⁰The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

³You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.

⁴Trust in the Lord forever, because God the Lord is the Rock eternal.

³Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

⁴Seek out the Lord and His strength; seek His face always.

⁹Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

¹⁰He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,

¹¹But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.

²²Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.

¹Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.

²Sing to the Lord, bless His name; proclaim His salvation day after day.

¹Hallelujah! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise Him in the highest places.

²Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His heavenly hosts.

²Sing the glory of His name; make His praise glorious.

⁴and on that day you will say: “Give praise to the Lord; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.

⁵Sing to the Lord, for He has done glorious things. Let this be known in all the earth.

¹Give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.

²Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.

⁶This poor man called out, and the Lord heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.

⁷The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

⁶For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”

⁵And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

⁹And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.

¹⁰And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood?”

²⁴For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.

³O Lord, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.

¹³For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

¹⁰I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

³Consider me and respond, O Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,

¹⁸They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.

¹⁵³Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.

⁵But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.

⁹Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord and exult in His salvation.

¹At that time Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.

¹²Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.

⁵May we shout for joy at your victory and raise a banner in the name of our God. May the Lord grant all your petitions.

²Who can describe the mighty acts of the Lord or fully proclaim His praise?

⁶They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah

⁸May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.

¹⁵He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

¹⁶His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

²²The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

⁸He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

²³He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The Lord our God will destroy them.

⁵And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”

¹³An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.

³¹When Israel saw the great power that the Lord had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.

¹⁷May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.

¹⁸May they know that You alone, whose name is the Lord, are Most High over all the earth.

¹⁰For we have heard how the Lord dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.

¹¹When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the Lord your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.

¹⁵Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

²²Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

⁸But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

⁸But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.

⁹There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;

⁷and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

⁸in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

¹³Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.

¹⁵And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

⁵“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

¹⁸For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

¹⁴Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.

⁵Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

²⁰Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

⁵³He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.

⁷Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

²⁶Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

²³Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.

⁷to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,

²²Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

²³Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

¹²Arise, O Lord! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.

³But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the Lord stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.

⁴⁰I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

⁹Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

⁶I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’

⁷But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”

¹²He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.

²²And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”

²³Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.