Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Lord’s Righteous Judgments

To the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Death of the Son.”^[a] A Psalm of David.

9 I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart;I will tell of all Your marvelous works.² I will be glad and rejoice in You;I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

³ When my enemies turn back,They shall fall and perish at Your presence.⁴ For You have maintained my right and my cause;You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.⁵ You have rebuked the nations,You have destroyed the wicked;You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

⁶ O enemy, destructions are finished forever!And you have destroyed cities;Even their memory has perished.⁷ But the Lord shall endure forever;He has prepared His throne for judgment.⁸ He shall judge the world in righteousness,And He shall administer judgment for the peoples in uprightness.

⁹ The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed,A refuge in times of trouble.¹⁰ And those who know Your name will put their trust in You;For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion!Declare His deeds among the people.¹² When He avenges blood, He remembers them;He does not forget the cry of the humble.

¹³ Have mercy on me, O Lord!Consider my trouble from those who hate me,You who lift me up from the gates of death,¹⁴ That I may tell of all Your praiseIn the gates of the daughter of Zion.I will rejoice in Your salvation.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.¹⁶ The Lord is known by the judgment He executes;The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.

Meditation.^[b] Selah

¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned into hell,And all the nations that forget God.¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten;The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

¹⁹ Arise, O Lord,Do not let man prevail;Let the nations be judged in Your sight.²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord,That the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah