Psalms 9

World English Bible 89 include this book

1 I will give thanks to the LORD 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 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

4 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on 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 is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

7 But the LORD reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

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

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

10 Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

11 Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

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

13 Have mercy on me, LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

14 that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

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

16 The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. 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 hope of the poor perish forever.

19 Arise, LORD! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

20 Put them in fear, LORD. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

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Jerusalem traditional Assembled for temple worship over several centuries.

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Broad agreement: 1010 BC–400 BC David and many others
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1200 BC–1000 BC Iron working spreads in the Levant Levant
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1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1200 BC–600 BC Zoroaster teaches in Persia Persia
Founder of Zoroastrianism, whose dating is disputed by as much as six centuries. His teaching on a cosmic struggle between good and evil later touched Jewish and Christian thought.
1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
776 BC First recorded Olympiad Greece
The traditional starting point of Greek historical chronology.
753 BC Traditional founding of Rome Rome
The legendary date of Rome's founding, later used as the anchor of the Roman calendar.
745 BC–609 BC Neo-Assyrian empire at its height Mesopotamia
Assyria dominated the Near East, deporting conquered populations as policy, including the northern kingdom of Israel.
620 BC–560 BC Coinage invented in Lydia Anatolia
Stamped electrum coins of guaranteed weight, an idea that spread across the ancient world within a century.

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