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Psalm 9

¹I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

²I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

³When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before you.

⁴For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.

⁵You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.

⁶The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities you have rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.

⁷But the Lord sits enthroned forever, he has established his throne for judgment.

⁸He judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with equity.

⁹The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

¹⁰And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion. Declare his deeds among the peoples.

¹²For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³Be gracious to me, O Lord. See what I suffer from those who hate me; you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴so that I may recount all your praises, and, in the gates of daughter Zion, rejoice in your deliverance.

¹⁵The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.

¹⁶The Lord has made himself known, he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah

¹⁷The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

¹⁹Rise up, O Lord! Do not let mortals prevail; let the nations be judged before you.

²⁰Put them in fear, O Lord; let the nations know that they are only human. Selah

Psalm 10

¹Why, O Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

²In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor— let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

³For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart, those greedy for gain curse and renounce the Lord.

⁴In the pride of their countenance the wicked say, “God will not seek it out”; all their thoughts are, “There is no God.”

⁵Their ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of their sight; as for their foes, they scoff at them.

⁶They think in their heart, “We shall not be moved; throughout all generations we shall not meet adversity.”

⁷Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.

⁸They sit in ambush in the villages; in hiding places they murder the innocent. Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

⁹they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.

¹⁰They stoop, they crouch, and the helpless fall by their might.

¹¹They think in their heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”

¹²Rise up, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; do not forget the oppressed.

¹³Why do the wicked renounce God, and say in their hearts, “You will not call us to account”?

¹⁴But you do see! Indeed you note trouble and grief, that you may take it into your hands; the helpless commit themselves to you; you have been the helper of the orphan.

¹⁵Break the arm of the wicked and evildoers; seek out their wickedness until you find none.

¹⁶The Lord is king forever and ever; the nations shall perish from his land.

¹⁷O Lord, you will hear the desire of the meek; you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear

¹⁸to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed, so that those from earth may strike terror no more.

Psalm 11

¹In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains;

²for look, the wicked bend the bow, they have fitted their arrow to the string, to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.

³If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

⁴The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven. His eyes behold, his gaze examines humankind.

⁵The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates the lover of violence.

⁶On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and sulfur; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

⁷For the Lord is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.

Psalm 12

¹Help, O Lord, for there is no longer anyone who is godly; the faithful have disappeared from humankind.

²They utter lies to each other; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

³May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,

⁴those who say, “With our tongues we will prevail; our lips are our own—who is our master?”

⁵“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”

⁶The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

⁷You, O Lord, will protect us; you will guard us from this generation forever.

⁸On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among humankind.