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¹ For the Chief Musician; set to Muthlabben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works.² I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O you Most High.³ When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish at your presence.⁴ For you have maintained my right and my cause; You sit in 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 have come to an end, they are desolate forever; And the cities which you have overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.⁷ But Yahweh sits [as king] forever: He has prepared his throne for judgment;⁸ And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will judge the peoples in uprightness.⁹ Yahweh also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble;¹⁰ And those that know your name will put their trust in you; For you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those that seek you.

¹¹ Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion: Declare among the people his doings.¹² For he that makes inquisition for blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the poor.¹³ Have mercy on me, O Yahweh; Look at my affliction [which I suffer] of those that hate me, You that lift me up from the gates of death;¹⁴ That I may show forth all your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion I will rejoice in your salvation.¹⁵ The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.¹⁶ Yahweh has made himself known, he has executed judgment: The wicked stumbles in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. 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 expectation of the poor perish forever.¹⁹ Arise, O Yahweh; Don't let common man prevail: Let the nations be judged in your sight.²⁰ Put them in fear, O Yahweh: Let the nations know themselves to be but common man. Selah.