{1Ki 2:10-12; 1Ch 29:26-30; Psa 4-6, 9, 11^**}

    ^9:1 I will give thanks to Jehovah with my whole heart. I will show forth all your marvelous works. ^9:2I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O you Most High. ^9:3 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish at your presence.^9:4 Because you have maintained my right and my cause. You sit in the throne judging righteously.

    ^9:5 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name everlasting and forever. ^9:6 The enemy have come to an end. They are desolate forever and the cities which you have overthrown. The very memory of them has perished, ^9:7 but Jehovah will endure everlasting.

    He has prepared his throne for judgment, ^9:8 and he will judge the world in righteousness. He will minister justice to the peoples in uprightness.

    ^9:9 Jehovah will also be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble. ^9:10 And those who know your name will put their trust in you, because you, Jehovah, have not forsaken those who seek you.

    ^9:11 Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwells in Zion. Declare among the people his practices. ^9:12 Because he who makes inquiry for blood remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the poor.

    ^9:13 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah. Behold my affliction from those who hate me, you who lifts me up from the gates of death ^9:14 that I may show forth all your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

    ^9:15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot has been taken. ^9:16 Jehovah has made himself known. He has executed justice. The wicked man is snared in the work of his own hands. A meditation. Selah. ^9:17Wicked men will be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

    ^9:18 Because a needy man will not always be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.

    ^9:19 Arise, O Jehovah, do not let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight. ^9:20 Put them in fear, O Jehovah. Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah.