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Psalms 9

1 To the victor, on a muthlabben1; a psalm of◦ David.
א I will confess Jehovah with all my heart;I will number all Thy wonders.
2 I will be·​·glad and will triumph◦ in Thee;I will sing·​·psalms to Thy name, O Most·​·High.
3 ב When my enemies are returned backward,They stumble and perish from Thy face.
4 For Thou hast done judgment for me and my cause;Thou sattest on the throne, the Judge of justice.
5 ג Thou hast rebuked the nations, Thou hast made· the wicked ·perish,Thou hast wiped·​·out their name to eternity and forever.
6 ה As to the enemy, wastings are finished perpetually;And Thou hast plucked·​·up cities; the remembrance of them, even of them◦, has perished.
7 ו But Jehovah will sit to eternity;He will prepare His throne for judgment.
8 ו And He◦ will judge the world with justice;He will make·​·judgment·​·for the peoples◦ in uprightness.
9 ו And Jehovah will be a High·​·Tower for the contrite,A High·​·Tower for times in adversity;
10 ו And those who know Thy name will trust in Thee;For Thou hast not forsaken those who inquire·​·after Thee, O Jehovah.
11 ז Sing·​·psalms to Jehovah, who dwells in Zion;Tell among◦ the peoples His actions.
12 For He who inquires·​·after bloods2 remembers them;He forgets not the cry of the afflicted.
13 ח Be·​·gracious·​·to me, O Jehovah; see my affliction from those who hate me,Thou who liftest· me ·up◦ from the gates of death;
14 So·​·that I may recount◦ all Thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion;I will rejoice in Thy salvation.
15 ט The nations are sunk in the ditch which they have made;In this net which they concealed is their foot captured.
16 Jehovah is known, He has done judgment;A wicked one shall be snared◦ by the work of the palms of his hands. Higgaion3. Selah.
17 י The wicked ones shall be turned·​·back into◦ hell,All the nations who·​·forget God.
18 כ For the needy shall not perpetually be forgotten,Nor4 shall the hope◦ of the meek perish forever.
19 Arise, O Jehovah; let not man▵ be·​·strong;Let the nations be judged before Thy face.
20 Put fear into◦ them, O Jehovah;Let the nations know they◦ are but man▵. Selah.

1a musical instrument (see AC 8337:5)

2Explaining Genesis 4:10-11, the Arcana Coelestia comments, “‘Bloods’ are mentioned in the plural, because all unjust and abominable things gush forth from hatred” (n. 374:3).

3This perhaps indicates a pause for meditating, as “higgaion” means meditation in Hebrew.

4as in AE 238:5