Yahweh Will Judge the World in Righteousness
For the choir director. Almuth-labben. A Psalm of David.
א Aleph
I will give thanks to Yahweh with all amy heart;
I will brecount all Your wondrous deeds.
א Aleph
2 I will be glad and aexult in You;
I will bsing praise to Your name, O cMost High.
ב Beth
3 When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and aperish before You.
4 For You have amaintained my justice and my cause;
You have sat on the throne bjudging righteously.
ג Gimel
5 You have arebuked the nations, You have made the wicked perish;
You have bblotted out their name forever and ever.
ה He
6 The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very amemory of them has perished.
ו Vav
7 But aYahweh abides forever;
He has established His bthrone for judgment,
ו Vav
8 And He will ajudge the world in righteousness;
He will render justice for the peoples with equity.
ו Vav
9 Yahweh also will be a astronghold for the oppressed,
A stronghold in times of distress;
ו Vav
10 And those who aknow Your name will put their trust in You,
For You, O Yahweh, have not bforsaken those who seek You.
ז Zayin
11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who aabides in Zion;
bDeclare among the peoples His acts.
12 For aHe who requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget bthe cry of the afflicted.
ח Heth
13 Be gracious to me, O Yahweh;
See my affliction from those awho hate me,
You who blift me up from the gates of death,
14 That I may recount aall Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may brejoice in Your salvation.
ט Teth
15 The nations have sunk down ain the pit which they have made;
In the bnet which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 Yahweh has amade Himself known;
He has bexecuted judgment.
In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.
י Yodh
17 The wicked will areturn to Sheol,
Even all the nations who bforget God.
כ Kaph
18 For the aneedy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the bhope of the afflicted perish forever.
19 aArise, O Yahweh, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be bjudged before You.
20 Put them ain fear, O Yahweh;
Let the nations know that they are bbut men. Selah.