1 Vir die musiekleier; op die wysie van: "Sterf vir die Seun". 'n Psalm van Dawid.

2 Ek wil die HERE loof met my hele hart; ek wil al u wonders vertel.

3 In U wil ek bly wees en juig; ek wil psalmsing tot eer van u Naam, o Allerhoogste,

4 omdat my vyande agteruitwyk, struikel en omkom van voor u aangesig.

5 Want U het my reg en my regsaak behandel; U het gaan sit op die troon, o regverdige regter!

6 U het die heidene gedreig, die goddelose laat omkom, hulle naam uitgedelg vir ewig en altyd.

7 Die vyande het omgekom -- puinhope vir ewig; ook die stede wat U verwoes het; hulle gedagtenis, ja, die het vergaan.

8 Maar die HERE sit vir ewig; Hy het sy troon reggesit vir die oordeel.

9 En Hy self sal die wêreld oordeel in geregtigheid en die volke vonnis met reg.

10 So is die HERE dan 'n rotsvesting vir die verdrukte, 'n rotsvesting in tye van benoudheid.

11 En hulle wat u Naam ken, sal op U vertrou, omdat U die wat U soek, nie verlaat nie, o HERE!

12 Psalmsing tot eer van die HERE wat op Sion woon; verkondig onder die volke sy dade.

13 Want Hy wat die bloed soek, dink aan hulle; Hy vergeet die geroep van die ellendiges nie.

14 Wees my genadig, HERE, aanskou my ellende vanweë my haters, U wat my verhef uit die poorte van die dood;

15 sodat ek al u roemryke dade kan vertel, in die poorte van die dogter van Sion kan juig oor u heil.

16 Die heidene het gesink in die kuil wat hulle gemaak het; hulle voet is gevang in die net wat hulle gespan het.

17 Die HERE het Hom bekend gemaak; Hy het strafgerig geoefen; die goddelose is verstrik in die werk van sy hande. Higgajon. Sela.

18 Die goddelose sal teruggaan na die doderyk, al die heidene wat God vergeet.

19 Want die behoeftige sal nie vir altyd vergeet word, die verwagting van die ellendiges nie vir ewig verlore gaan nie.

20 Staan op, HERE, laat die mens nie sterk word nie; laat die heidene voor u aangesig geoordeel word! [ (Psalms 9:21) o HERE jaag hulle skrik aan; laat die heidene weet, hulle is mense! Sela. ]

1 To the chief music-maker on Muthlabben. A Psalm. Of David.

2 \9:1\I will give you praise, O Lord, with all my heart; I will make clear all the wonder of your works.

3 \9:2\I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.

4 \9:3\When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.

5 \9:4\For you gave approval to my right and my cause; you were seated in your high place judging in righteousness.

6 \9:5\You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.

7 \9:6\You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

8 \9:7\But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.

9 \9:8\And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.

10 \9:9\The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;

11 \9:10\And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.

12 \9:11\Make songs of praise to the Lord, whose house is in Zion: make his doings clear to the people.

13 \9:12\When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

14 \9:13\Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

15 \9:14\So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.

16 \9:15\The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

17 \9:16\The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

18 \9:17\The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

19 \9:18\For the poor will not be without help; the hopes of those in need will not be crushed for ever.

20 \9:19\Up! O Lord; let not man overcome you: let the nations be judged before you.

21 \9:20\Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)