Psalm 9
God, refuge of the oppressed. Recalling the examples of the past, the
psalmist affirms: ¡°The hope of the poor will not be destroyed.¡±
2 Let my heart give thanks to the Lord, I yearn to proclaim your marvelous
deeds,
3 and rejoice and exult in you, and sing praise to your name, O Most High.
4 For my enemies fell back in re treat, they stumbled and perished before
you.
5 You have upheld my right and my cause, you have sentenced from your
throne, O just judge.
6 You have turned back the nations; you have destroyed the wicked; you have
blotted out their names forever.
7 Your enemies lay in endless ruin, their cities trampled, their memory
perished.
8 But the Lord reigns forever, having set up his throne for judgment.
9 He will judge the nations with justice and govern the peoples in right
eousness.
10 The Lord is a rampart for the oppressed, a refuge in times of distress.
11 Those who cherish your name, O Lord, can rely on you, for you have never
forsaken those who look to you.
12 Sing praises to the Lord en throned in Zion, proclaim his deeds among the
nations.
13 For he who avenges blood re members, he does not ignore the cry of the
lowly.
14 Have mercy on me, O Lord. See how they afflict me. Oh, lift me up from
the gates of death,
15 that I may declare your praise, that I may rejoice in your salvation in
the gates of Zion.
16 The pagans have sunk into the pit they have dug, their own feet ensnared
by the trap they laid.
17 The Lord has shown his presence, he has judged and the wicked plotters
have been trapped by the work of their hands.
18 To the netherworld the wicked will depart, all the nations that have no
thought of God.
19 For the needy will not always be for gotten, nor the hope of the poor
perish forever.
20 Rise, O Lord! Do not let mortals pre vail; let the nations stand on trial
be fore you.
21 Bring terror, O Lord, strike at them; let these pagans realize that they
are but humans.