I Will Give Thanks to the LORD 1 UST Yahweh, I will praise you with all of my inner being. I will tell others about all the wonderful things that you have done. BSB BSB: For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will recount all Your wonders.
2 UST You make me extremely happy, so I will sing to celebrate what you, who are much greater than all other spirit beings, have done. BSB BSB: I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
3 UST When my foes flee{ from your righteous anger}, they trip and fall. You kill them just by being near them. BSB BSB: When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.
4 UST { You are angry because} you have found my legal case to be righteous{ and my enemies’ to be wicked}. You sit on a throne{ like a king} judging{ everything} rightly. BSB BSB: For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
5 UST You reprimanded the people from other nations, and killed the wicked people; you eradicate them so thoroughly no one will ever remember their names. BSB BSB: You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.
6 UST Nothing remains of our enemies except the ruins of their cities which you permanently destroyed. No one even remembers those enemies anymore. BSB BSB: The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
7 UST But Yahweh rules forever. He is prepared to judge from his throne. BSB BSB: But the LORD abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment.
8 UST He will judge all the people in the world justly; he will be fair when he judges the people of every nation. BSB BSB: He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.
9 UST Let Yahweh be like a fortress for those whom oppressors oppress; like a strong fort for them when they have trouble. BSB BSB: The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
10 UST Those who know your reputation should trust you; because you, Yahweh, never abandon those who come to you{ for help}. BSB BSB: Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
11 UST Yahweh rules on Mount Zion; praise him by singing to him! Tell people from every nation the marvelous things that he has done. BSB BSB: Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion; proclaim His deeds among the nations.
12 UST Do this because Yahweh always remembers to repay any person who murders another person. When someone’ s enemy has oppressed him, and when that person calls to Yahweh to help him, Yahweh does not forget to avenge him. BSB BSB: For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
13 UST Yahweh, act mercifully toward me! You who rescue me when I am almost dead, look at the ways that my enemies have oppressed me. BSB BSB: Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,
14 UST { I want to live} in order to tell all your people at the entrance to Jerusalem all the reasons to praise you and to rejoice because you rescued me. BSB BSB: that I may declare all Your praises—that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.
15 UST { When you rescue me} it is like wicked people of many nations had dug a pit for me to fall into, but have fallen into that same pit, or like they hid a net to catch me, but their feet have been caught in that same net. BSB BSB: The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
16 UST So you allow the traps that wicked people make to trap them. Because of that, people can discover that you, Yahweh, are just. Higgaion Selah BSB BSB: The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
17 UST Wicked people will flee{ from you} back to the place where dead people stay.{ There are people there} from every nation, people who have forgotten{ to worship the true} God. BSB BSB: The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
18 UST This all happens because there is a certain time when God will remember{ to take care of} poor people. It is good for oppressed people to expect him to rescue them because he will do it one day. BSB BSB: For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
19 UST Yahweh, do something! Do not let{ evil} people win!{ Bring them} to your court and judge them! BSB BSB: Rise up, O LORD, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence.
20 UST Yahweh, teach them that they must be afraid of you and honor you. Cause{ the rulers of} nations to know that they are mortal. Selah BSB BSB: Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah
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