Mar 1, 2024
1 I will give thanks to
you, Lord, with all my
heart;
I will tell of all your wonderful
deeds.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in
you;
I will sing the praises of your name, O
Most High.
3 My enemies turn
back;
they stumble and perish before you.
4 For you have upheld my right and my
cause,
sitting enthroned as the righteous
judge.
5 You have rebuked the nations and
destroyed the wicked;
you have blotted out their name for ever and
ever.
6 Endless ruin has overtaken my
enemies,
you have uprooted their cities;
even the memory of them has
perished.
7 The Lord reigns forever;
he has established his throne for
judgment.
8 He rules the world in
righteousness
and judges the peoples with equity.
9 The Lord is a refuge for the
oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
10 Those who know your name trust in
you,
for you, Lord,
have never forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing the
praises of the Lord,
enthroned in Zion;
proclaim among the nations what he has
done.
12 For he who avenges
blood remembers;
he does not ignore the cries of the
afflicted.
13 Lord, see how my enemies persecute
me!
Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of
death,
14 that I may declare your praises
in the gates of Daughter Zion,
and there rejoice in your
salvation.
15 The nations have
fallen into the pit they have dug;
their feet are caught in the net they have
hidden.
16 The Lord is known by his acts of
justice;
the wicked are ensnared by the work of their
hands.[c]
17 The wicked go down to the realm of the
dead,
all the nations that forget God.
18 But God will never forget the
needy;
the hope of the afflicted will never
perish.
19 Arise, Lord, do not let mortals triumph;
let the nations be judged in your
presence.
20 Strike them with terror, Lord;
let the nations know they are only
mortal.