1 I will give thanks to Yahweh 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 stumble and perish in your presence.
4 For you have maintained my just cause.
You sit on the throne judging righteously.
5 You have rebuked the nations.
You have destroyed the wicked.
You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin.
The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
7 But Yahweh reigns forever.
He has prepared his throne for judgment.
8 He will judge the world in righteousness.
He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
9 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed;
a high tower in times of trouble.
10 Those who know your name will put their trust in you,
for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion,
and declare among the people what he has done.
12 For he who avenges blood remembers them.
He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
13 Have mercy on me, Yahweh.
See my affliction by those who hate me,
and lift me up from the gates of death,
14 that I may show all of your praise.
I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made.
In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
16 Yahweh has made himself known.
He has executed judgment.
The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
17 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol,
even all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
19 Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail.
Let the nations be judged in your sight.
20 Put them in fear, Yahweh.
Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.
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. ]