I Will Give Thanks to Yahweh

1For the one directing. According to Muth-Labben. A Psalm of David.†

1 I will confess YHWH with all of my heart;

I will recount all Your wonders.

2I will be glad and rejoice in You;

I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

3In turning back my enemies

they shall stumble and shall perish from Your face.

4For You have done my justice and my claim;

You have sat on the throne, judging with righteousness.

5You have rebuked the nations;

You have destroyed the wicked;

their name You have wiped out forever and ever.

6May the enemy be finished in ruins forever,

and You have uprooted cities;

let their remembrance perish with them!

7And YHWH shall sit forever;

He has established His throne for the judgment.

8And He will judge the world in righteousness;

He shall make judgment for the peoples in uprightness.

9And YHWH will be a secure height for the oppressed,

a secure height in times of distress.

10And they will put their trust in You—those knowing Your name—

for You have not forsaken those seeking You, O YHWH.

11Sing praise to YHWH, the One sitting in Zion;

declare His deeds among the peoples.

12For the One seeking out the blood remembers them;

He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

13Show favor to me, O YHWH;

see my affliction from those hating me;

raise me high from the gates of death,

14so that I may recount all Your praises

in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

I will rejoice in Your salvation.

15The nations have sunk down into the pit they have made;

in the net that they hid, their foot is caught.

16YHWH is known by the justice He has done;

by the work of his own hands the wicked one is snared.

Higgaion Selah†

17the wicked shall return to Sheol—

all the nations forgetting God.

18For the needy will not be forgotten forever,

nor the hope of the poor perish to the end.

19Arise, O YHWH! Do not let man prevail;

let the nations be judged before Your face.

20Put fear on them,

O YHWH; let the nations know they are mortal.

Selah