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Psalms 9
Praise that keeps circling back to a courtroom. The psalmist thanks God for past victories — enemies turned back, nations rebuked, names blotted out (v.3-6) — because they prove that the throne in Zion is set 'for judgment' (v.7). Then the tone shifts mid-song to a personal plea: 'Have mercy on me' at the gates of death (v.13). Watch the two reversals the poem trusts: the nations sink into their own pit (v.15), and the needy will not always be forgotten (v.18).
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I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
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I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
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When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.
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For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
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You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
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The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
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But the LORD reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.
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He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
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The LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.
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Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
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Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.
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For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
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Have mercy on me, LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,
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that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
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The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
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The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
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The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
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For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
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Arise, LORD! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.
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Put them in fear, LORD. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.
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Al Músico principal: sobre Muth-labben: Salmo de David. TE alabaré, oh Jehová, con todo mi corazón; contaré todas tus maravillas.
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Alegraréme y regocijaréme en ti: cantaré á tu nombre, oh Altísimo;
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Por haber sido mis enemigos vueltos atrás: caerán y perecerán delante de ti.
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Porque has hecho mi juicio y mi causa: sentástete en silla juzgando justicia.
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Reprendiste gentes, destruiste al malo, raíste el nombre de ellos para siempre jamás.
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Oh enemigo, acabados son para siempre los asolamientos; y las ciudades que derribaste, su memoria pereció con ellas.
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Mas Jehová permanecerá para siempre: dispuesto ha su trono para juicio.
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Y él juzgará el mundo con justicia; y juzgará los pueblos con rectitud.
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Y será Jehová refugio al pobre, refugio para el tiempo de angustia.
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Y en ti confiarán los que conocen tu nombre; por cuanto tú, oh Jehová, no desamparaste á los que te buscaron.
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Cantad á Jehová, que habita en Sión: noticiad en los pueblos sus obras.
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Porque demandando la sangre se acordó de ellos: no se olvidó del clamor de los pobres.
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Ten misericordia de mí, Jehová: mira mi aflicción que padezco de los que me aborrecen, tú que me levantas de las puertas de la muerte;
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Porque cuente yo todas tus alabanzas en las puertas de la hija de Sión, y me goce en tu salud.
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Hundiéronse las gentes en la fosa que hicieron; en la red que escondieron fué tomado su pie.
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Jehová fué conocido en el juicio que hizo; en la obra de sus manos fué enlazado el malo. (Higaion. Selah.)
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Los malos serán trasladados al infierno, todas las gentes que se olvidan de Dios.
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Porque no para siempre será olvidado el pobre; ni la esperanza de los pobres perecerá perpetuamente.
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Levántate, oh Jehová; no se fortalezca el hombre; sean juzgadas las gentes delante de ti.
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Pon, oh Jehová, temor en ellos: conozcan las gentes que son no más que hombres. (Selah.)
Public memory, divine memory
The psalm plays on remembering and forgetting. Conquered cities lose even the memory of their name (v.6), yet God 'doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted' (v.12).
That contrast is the engine of the closing prayer: let the nations 'know that they are only men' (v.20), while the poor are kept in a memory that does not fail.
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