A Psalm of Thanksgiving for God’s Justice.
To the Chief Musician; on● Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.
I will give thanks and praise the LORD, with aall my heart;I will btell aloud all Your wonders and marvelous deeds.A transliteration of the Hebrew, whose meaning is unknown. Possibly referring to a tune titled “Death to the Son.” Perhaps for soprano voices.Ps 86:12Ps 26:72 I will rejoice and aexult in you;I will bsing praise to Your name, O cMost High.Ps 5:11; 104:34Ps 66:2, 4Ps 83:18; 92:1
3 When my enemies turn back,They stumble and aperish before You.Ps 27:24 For You have amaintained my right and my cause;You have sat on the throne bjudging righteously.Ps 140:12Ps 50:65 You have arebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked and unrepentant;You have bwiped out their name forever and ever.Ps 119:21Ps 69:28; Prov 10:76 The enemy has been cut off and has vanished in everlasting ruins,You have uprooted their cities;The very amemory of them has perished.Ps 34:16
7 But the aLORD will remain and sit enthroned forever;He has prepared and established His bthrone for judgment. Heb 1:11Ps 10:16Ps 89:148 And He will ajudge the world in righteousness;He will execute judgment for the nations with fairness . Acts 17:31Ps 96:13; 98:99 The LORD also will be a arefuge and a stronghold for the oppressed,A refuge in times of trouble;Ps 32:7; 59:9, 16, 1710 And those who aknow Your name who have experienced Your precious mercy will put their confident trust in You,For You, O LORD, have not babandoned those who seek You. Ps 42:1Ps 91:14Ps 37:28; 94:14
11 Sing praises to the LORD, who adwells in Zion;bDeclare among the peoples His great and wondrous deeds.Ps 76:2Ps 105:1; 107:2212 For aHe who avenges blood unjustly shed remembers them ;He does not forget bthe cry of the afflicted and abused.Gen 9:5; Ps 72:14Ps 9:1813 Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O LORD;See how I am afflicted by those awho hate me,You who blift me up from the gates of death,Ps 38:19Ps 30:3; 86:1314 That I may tell aloud aall Your praises,That in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may brejoice in Your salvation and Your help.Ps 106:2Ps 13:5; 20:5; 35:9; 51:1215 The nations have sunk down ain the pit which they have made;In the bnet which they hid, their own foot has been caught.Ps 7:15, 16Ps 57:616 The LORD has amade Himself known;He bexecutes judgment;The wicked are trapped by the work of their own hands.Higgaion (meditation) Selah.Ex 7:5Ps 9:4
17 The wicked will aturn to Sheol ,Even all the nations who bforget God.Ps 49:14Job 8:13; Ps 50:2218 For the apoor will not always be forgotten,Nor the bhope of the burdened perish forever.Ps 9:12; 12:5Ps 62:5; 71:5; Prov 23:1819 aArise, O LORD, do not let man prevail;Let the nations be bjudged before You.Num 10:35Ps 9:520 Put them ain reverent 1fear of You, O LORD,So that the nations may know they are bbut frail and mortal men.Selah.The “fear” of God is a common concept in the OT, but is difficult to translate into English. It is not simply a matter of “fear” in the modern English sense. Nor is it only a sentiment of deep reverence. It implies obedience, as well.Ps 14:5Ps 62:9