Psalm 9

Names of God Bible

³ When my enemies retreat, they will stumble and die in your presence.
⁴ You have defended my just cause:
    You sat down on your throne as a fair judge.
⁵         You condemned nations.
        You destroyed wicked people.
        You wiped out their names forever and ever.
⁶ The enemy is finished—in ruins forever.
    You have uprooted their cities.
        Even the memory of them has faded.

⁷ Yet, Yahweh is enthroned forever.
    He has set up his throne for judgment.
⁸ He alone judges the world with righteousness.
    He judges its people fairly.
⁹ Yahweh is a stronghold for the oppressed,
    a stronghold in times of trouble.
¹⁰ Those who know your name trust you, O Yahweh,
    because you have never deserted those who seek your help.

¹¹ Make music to praise Yahweh, who is enthroned in Zion.
    Announce to the nations what he has done.
¹² The one who avenges murder has remembered oppressed people.
    He has never forgotten their cries.
¹³ Have pity on me, O Yahweh.
    Look at what I suffer because of those who hate me.
    You take me away from the gates of death
¹⁴ so that I may recite your praises one by one
    in the gates of Zion
        and find joy in your salvation.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk into the pit they have made.
    Their feet are caught in the net they have hidden to trap others.
¹⁶ Yahweh is known by the judgment he has carried out.
    The wicked person is trapped
        by the work of his own hands. Higgaion Selah
¹⁷ Wicked people, all the nations who forget Elohim,
    will return to the grave.
¹⁸ Needy people will not always be forgotten.
    Nor will the hope of oppressed people be lost forever.
¹⁹ Arise, O Yahweh.
    Do not let mortals gain any power.
    Let the nations be judged in your presence.
²⁰ Strike them with terror, O Yahweh.
    Let the nations know that they are only mortal. Selah