Commentary on Psalms - Volume 5

To the chief Musician upon Hagittith. Almuth Laben. A Psalm of David

1I will praise Jehovah with my whole heart; will recount all thy marvelous works.

2I will rejoice and exult in thee; I will celebrate in Psalms thy name, O thou Most high!

3When turned are my enemies backward, They fall and are put to flight at thy presence.

4For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause; Thou hast sat upon the throne a righteous judge.

5Thou hast rebuked the heathen; Thou hast destroyed the ungodly; Their name thou hast blotted out for ever and ever.

6O thou enemy! come to an end are desolations for ever; And cities thou hast destroyed; Perished has their memory with them.

7And Jehovah for ever sitteth: His throne for judgment he hath prepared.

8And he shall judge the world in righteousness; He shall judge the peoples in rectitude.

9And Jehovah will be a place of defense to the poor, And a protection in seasonable times in trouble.

10And trust in thee shall those who know thy name: For thou forsakest not those who seek thee, O Jehovah!

11Sing psalms to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion, Proclaim among the peoples his doings;

12For in requiring blood, it he hath remembered: He hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

13Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah! See my affliction from those who persecute me, O thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;

14That I may recount all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion; That I may exult in thy salvation.

15Sunk are the heathen into the pit which they have made; In the net which they have hid taken are their own feet.

16Known is Jehovah by executing judgment: In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.

17Turned shall be the wicked into hell: All the nations that forget God.

18For not for ever shall be forgotten the poor; The hope of the humble shall not perish for ever.

19Arise, O Jehovah! let not man prevail: Let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

20Put, O Jehovah! fear in them, That the heathen may know that mortal men they are. Selah.