Psalms 9–10 [Douay 9]

Psalm 9 in modern numbering

¹ I will give thanks to the 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 stumble and perish in your presence.

⁴ For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

⁵ You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

⁶ The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

⁷ But the LORD reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

⁸ He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

⁹ The LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

¹⁰ 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, and declare among the people what he has done.

¹² For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³ Have mercy on me, LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴ that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

¹⁶ The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

¹⁹ Arise, LORD! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

²⁰ Put them in fear, LORD. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

Psalm 10 in modern numbering

¹ Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

² In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

³ For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns the LORD.

⁴ The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

⁵ His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

⁶ He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

⁸ He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

⁹ He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

¹⁰ The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

¹¹ He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

¹² Arise, LORD! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

¹³ Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account”?

¹⁴ But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

¹⁶ The LORD is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.

¹⁷ LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

¹⁸ to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

¹ UUnto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David.

² I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will relate all thy wonders.

³ I will be glad, and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou most high.

⁴ When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and perish before thy face.

⁵ For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.

⁶ Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

⁷ The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise:

⁸ But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in judgment:

⁹ And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice.

¹⁰ And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.

¹¹ And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.

¹² Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among the Gentiles:

¹³ For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

¹⁴ Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies.

¹⁵ Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

¹⁶ I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.

¹⁷ The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.

¹⁸ The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

¹⁹ For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.

²⁰ Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.

²¹ Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.