Psalm   9

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

God’s Power and Justice

To the choirmaster: according to Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.

9 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
      I will tell of all thy wonderful deeds.
  ² I will be glad and exult in thee,
      I will sing praise to thy name, O Most High.

³ When my enemies turned back,
      they stumbled and perished before thee.
  ⁴ For thou hast maintained my just cause;
      thou hast sat on the throne giving righteous   judgment.

⁵ Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked;
      thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
  ⁶ The enemy have vanished in everlasting ruins;
      their cities thou hast rooted out;
      the very memory of them has perished.

⁷ But the Lord   sits enthroned for ever,
      he has established his throne for judgment;
  ⁸ and he judges the world with righteousness,
      he judges the peoples with equity.

⁹ The Lord is a   stronghold for the oppressed,
      a stronghold in times of trouble.
  ¹⁰ And those who know thy name put their trust in thee,
      for thou, O Lord,   hast not forsaken those who seek thee.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord,   who dwells in Zion!
      Tell among the peoples his deeds!
  ¹² For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
      he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³ Be gracious to me, O Lord!
      Behold what I suffer from those who hate me,
      O thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

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

¹⁵ The nations have sunk in the pit which they made;
      in the net which they hid has their own foot been   caught.
  ¹⁶ The Lord has   made himself known, he has executed judgment;
      the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.Higgaion.   Selah

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

¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
      and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.

¹⁹ Arise, O Lord!   Let not man prevail;
      let the nations be judged before thee!
  ²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord!
      Let the nations know that they are but men!Selah

Psalm 10

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies

10 Why dost thou stand afar   off, O Lord?
      Why   dost thou hide thyself in times of trouble?
  ² In arrogance the   wicked hotly pursue the poor;
      let   them be caught in the schemes which they have devised.

³ For the wicked boasts of   the desires of his heart,
      and   the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.
  ⁴ In the pride of   his countenance the wicked does not seek him;
      all   his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

⁵ His ways prosper at all   times;
      thy   judgments are on high, out of his sight;
      as   for all his foes, he puffs at them.
  ⁶ He thinks in his   heart, “I shall not be moved;
      throughout   all generations I shall not meet adversity.”

⁷ His mouth is filled with   cursing and deceit and oppression;
      under   his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
  ⁸ He sits in ambush   in the villages;
      in   hiding places he murders the innocent.

His   eyes stealthily watch for the hapless,
  ⁹     he   lurks in secret like a lion in his covert;
  he lurks that he may seize the poor,
      he   seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

¹⁰ The hapless is crushed,   sinks down,
      and   falls by his might.
  ¹¹ He thinks in his   heart, “God has forgotten,
      he   has hidden his face, he will never see it.”

¹² Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thy hand;
      forget   not the afflicted.
  ¹³ Why does the   wicked renounce God,
      and   say in his heart, “Thou wilt not call to account”?

¹⁴ Thou   dost see; yea, thou dost note trouble and vexation,
      that   thou mayst take it into thy hands;
  the hapless commits himself to thee;
      thou   hast been the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵ Break thou the arm of   the wicked and evildoer;
      seek   out his wickedness till thou find none.
  ¹⁶ The Lord is king for ever and ever;
      the   nations shall perish from his land.

¹⁷ O Lord, thou wilt hear the desire of the meek;
      thou   wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt incline thy ear
  ¹⁸ to do justice to   the fatherless and the oppressed,
      so   that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.