PSALMS

The Ninth Psalm

Confitebor tibi.

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I WILL give thanks unto thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; * I will speak of all thy marvellous works.
 
I will be glad and rejoice in thee; * yea, my songs will I make of thy Name, O thou Most Highest.
 
While mine enemies are driven back, * they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
 
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; * thou art set in the throne that judgest right.
 
Thou hast rebuked the heathen, and destroyed the ungodly; * thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
 
O thou enemy, thy destructions are come to a perpetual end; * even as the cities which thou hast destroyed, whose memorial is perished with them.
 
But the LORD shall endure for ever; * he hath also prepared his seat for judgment.
 
For he shall judge the world in righteousness, * and minister true judgment unto the people.
 
The LORD also will be a defence for the oppressed, * even a refuge in due time of trouble.
 
And they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee; * for thou, LORD, hast never failed them that seek thee.
 
O praise the LORD which dwelleth in Sion; * show the people of his doings.
 
For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, * and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.
 
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, * thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;
 
That I may show all thy praises within the gates of the daughter of Sion: * I will rejoice in thy salvation.
 
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; * in the same net which they hid privily is their foot taken.
 
The LORD is known to execute judgment; * the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands.
 
The wicked shall be turned to destruction, * and all the people that forget God.
 
For the poor shall not alway be forgotten; * the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever.
 
Up, LORD, and let not man have the upper hand; * let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
 
Put them in fear, O LORD, * that the heathen may know themselves to be but men.