Psalms 9:1-6

Psalm 9

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For the music leader. According to Muth-labben. A psalm of David.

1 I will thank you, LORD, with all my heart; I will talk about all your wonderful acts.
2 I will celebrate and rejoice in you; I will sing praises to your name, Most High.
3 When my enemies turn and retreat, they fall down and die right in front of you
4 because you have established justice for me and my claim, because you rule from the throne, establishing justice rightly.
5 You've denounced the nations, destroyed the wicked. You've erased their names for all time.
6 Every enemy is wiped out, like something ruined forever. You've torn down their cities— even the memory of them is dead.

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Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Ps 9 is an alphabetic acrostic poem (cf Ps 119) in Heb, with successive letters of the alphabet beginning every few lines, with only a few exceptions. Only ten letters are found in Ps 9; the sequence may be continued in Ps 10, suggesting that Pss 9–10 are a single poem.
  • [b]. Or Almuth labben; Heb uncertain, perhaps a reference to the melody; cf Pss 46:1; 48:14
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