1 I will give thanks to Yahweh 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 W hen my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

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

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

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

7 B ut Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

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

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

10 T hose who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

11 S ing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

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

13 H ave mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

14 t hat I may show all of your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.

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

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

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

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

19 A rise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

20 P ut them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.