Psalm 9
Confitebor tibi
The Book of Common Prayer (1979) · 20 verses
- 1
I will give thanks to 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 to your Name, O Most High. - 3
When my enemies are driven back, *
they will stumble and perish at your presence. - 4
For you have maintained my right and my cause; *
you sit upon your throne judging right. - 5
You have rebuked the ungodly and destroyed the wicked; *
you have blotted out their name for ever and ever. - 6
As for the enemy, they are finished, in perpetual ruin, *
their cities plowed under, the memory of them perished; - 7
But the LORD is enthroned for ever; *
he has set up his throne for judgment. - 8
It is he who rules the world with righteousness; *
he judges the peoples with equity. - 9
The LORD will be a refuge for the oppressed, *
a refuge in time of trouble. - 10
Those who know your Name will put their trust in you, *
for you never forsake those who seek you, O LORD. - 11
Sing praise to the LORD who dwells in Zion; *
proclaim to the peoples the things he has done. - 12
The Avenger of blood will remember them; *
he will not forget the cry of the afflicted. - 13
Have pity on me, O LORD; *
see the misery I suffer from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gate of death; - 14
So that I may tell of all your praises and rejoice in your salvation *
in the gates of the city of Zion. - 15
The ungodly have fallen into the pit they dug, *
and in the snare they set is their own foot caught. - 16
The LORD is known by his acts of justice; *
the wicked are trapped in the works of their own hands. - 17
The wicked shall be given over to the grave, *
and also all the people that forget God. - 18
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, *
and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever. - 19
Rise up, O LORD, let not the ungodly have the upper hand; *
let them be judged before you. - 20
Put fear upon them, O LORD; *
let the ungodly know they are but mortal.
The text of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer is in the public domain in the United States.