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Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Lord’s Righteous Judgments
To the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David.
1I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart;
I will tell of all Your marvelous works.
2I will be glad and ⚓rejoice in You;
I will sing praise to Your name, ⚓O Most High.
3When my enemies turn back,
They shall fall and perish at Your presence.
4For You have maintained my right and my cause;
You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.
5You have rebuked the nations,
You have destroyed the wicked;
You have ⚓blotted out their name forever and ever.
6O enemy, destructions are finished forever!
And you have destroyed cities;
Even their memory has ⚓perished.
7⚓But the Lord shall endure forever;
He has prepared His throne for judgment.
8⚓He shall judge the world in righteousness,
And He shall administer judgment for the peoples in uprightness.
9The Lord also will be a ⚓refuge for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of trouble.
10And those who ⚓know Your name will put their trust in You;
For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.
11Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion!
⚓Declare His deeds among the people.
12⚓When He avenges blood, He remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the humble.
13Have mercy on me, O Lord!
Consider my trouble from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,
14That I may tell of all Your praise
In the gates of the daughter of Zion.
I will ⚓rejoice in Your salvation.
15⚓The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.
16The Lord is ⚓known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
Selah
17The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the nations ⚓that forget God.
18⚓For the needy shall not always be forgotten;
⚓The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.
19Arise, O Lord,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
20Put them in fear, O Lord,
That the nations may know themselves to be but men.
Selah