¹ I will thank you, Lord, with all my heart.
I will tell about all your wonderful deeds.
² I will be glad and rejoice in you.
I will make music to your name, O Most High.

³ When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish from your presence,
⁴ for you have upheld my rights and my cause.
You sat on the throne, judging righteously.
⁵ You have rebuked the nations,
and you made the wicked perish.
You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
⁶ As for the enemy, their destruction is complete and final.
You have uprooted cities.
Memory of them has perished with them.

⁷ The Lord is seated forever.
He has established his throne for judgment.
⁸ The Lord himself will judge the world in righteousness.
He will judge the peoples with fairness.
⁹ The Lord will be a refuge for those who have been crushed,
a refuge for times of trouble.
¹⁰ Those who know your name will trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹ Make music for the Lord, who is seated in Zion.
Proclaim his deeds among the peoples.
¹² Yes, he who avenges bloodshed remembers them.
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
¹³ Have mercy on me, O Lord.
See my afflictions that are caused by those who hate me,
and raise me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴ so that I may declare all your praise.
In the gates of the Daughter of Zion ^[2] I will rejoice in your salvation.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk into the pit they have made.
Their feet are caught in the net that they have hidden.
¹⁶ The Lord makes himself known by the judgment he has carried out.
By the work of his hands the wicked are snared. Interlude for meditation ^[3]
17 The wicked return to the grave,
all the nations who forget God.
¹⁸ But he will never forget the needy.
The hope of the afflicted will never perish.
¹⁹ Rise up, O Lord. Do not let man triumph.
Let the nations be judged in your presence.
²⁰ Strike them with fear, O Lord.
Let the nations know they are only human. Interlude

¹ Why, Lord, do you stand so far away?
Why do you hide in times of distress?

² Because of the pride of the wicked, the oppressed burn. ^[4]
They are caught in the schemes that the wicked plan.
³ Yes, the wicked man boasts about his heart’s desires.
He blesses the robber. He despises the Lord. ^[5]
4 With his nose in the air, the wicked does not seek God.
There is no room at all for God in his thoughts.
⁵ His ways are prosperous all the time.
He is haughty. Your judgments do not concern him.
He snorts at all of his foes.
⁶ He says in his heart, “I will not be shaken.
Through age after age I will have no trouble.”
⁷ Cursing fills his mouth, along with lies and threats.
Trouble and evil lie under his tongue.
⁸ He waits in ambush by the villages.
In hidden places he murders the innocent.
His eyes are spying on the helpless.
⁹ He lies in ambush. He hides like a lion in a thicket.
He lies in ambush to catch the oppressed.
He catches the oppressed by dragging them in his net.
¹⁰ The helpless are crushed. They sink down.
They fall under his strength.
¹¹ He says in his heart, “God has forgotten.
He hides his face. He never sees.”

¹² Rise up, O Lord! Lift up your hand, O God.
Do not forget the oppressed.
¹³ Why does the wicked man despise God?
Why does he say in his heart,
“You do not seek justice”?
¹⁴ But you do see. You notice trouble and grief.
You take it into your own hands.
The helpless one abandons himself to you.
For the fatherless you are indeed a helper.
¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked.
You pursue the wickedness of the evil man
    until you find no more. ^[6]

¹⁶ The Lord is King forever and ever.
The nations will perish from his land.
¹⁷ Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted.
You strengthen their hearts,
and your ear pays attention,
¹⁸ to obtain justice for the fatherless and the crushed,
so that the worldly man ^[7] may no longer terrify.