8 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. On the gittit. A psalm of David:

^2 (1) Adonai! Our Lord! How glorious
is your name throughout the earth!
The fame of your majesty
spreads even above the heavens!

^3 (2) From the mouths of babies and infants at the breast
you established strength because of your foes,
in order that you might silence
the enemy and the avenger.

^4 (3) When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and stars that you set in place —
^5 (4) what are mere mortals, that you concern yourself with them;
humans, that you watch over them with such care?

^6 (5) You made him but little lower than the angels,
you crowned him with glory and honor,
^7 (6) you had him rule what your hands made,
you put everything under his feet —
^8 (7) sheep and oxen, all of them,
also the animals in the wilds,
^9 (8) the birds in the air, the fish in the sea,
whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

^10 (9) Adonai! Our Lord! How glorious
is your name throughout the earth!

9 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. On the death of Labben. A psalm of David:

^2 (1) I give thanks to Adonai with all my heart.
I will tell about all your wonderful deeds.
^3 (2) I will be glad and exult in you.
I will sing praise to your name, ‘Elyon.

^4 (3) When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before you.
^5 (4) For you upheld my cause as just,
sitting on the throne as the righteous judge.

^6 (5) You rebuked the nations, destroyed the wicked,
blotted out their name forever and ever.
^7 (6) The enemy is finished, in ruins forever;
you destroyed their cities; all memory of them is lost.

^8 (7) But Adonai is enthroned forever;
he has set up his throne for judgment.
^9 (8) He will judge the world in righteousness;
he will judge the peoples fairly.

^10 (9) Adonai is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a tower of strength in times of trouble.
^11 (10) Those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you have not abandoned those who seek you, Adonai.

^12 (11) Sing praises to Adonai, who lives in Tziyon;
proclaim his deeds among the peoples.
^13 (12) For the avenger of blood remembers them,
he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted:

^14 (13) “Have mercy on me, Adonai!
See how I suffer from those who hate me;
you raise me from the gates of death,
^15 (14) so that I can proclaim all your praises
at the gates of the daughter of Tziyon
and rejoice in this deliverance of yours.”

^16 (15) The nations have drowned in the pit they dug,
caught their own feet in the net they hid.
^17 (16) Adonai made himself known and executed judgment;
the wicked are ensnared in the work of their own hands. (Higgayon; Selah)

^18 (17) The wicked will return to Sh’ol,
all the nations that forget God.

^19 (18) For the poor will not always be forgotten
or the hope of the needy perish forever.

^20 (19) Arise, Adonai! Don’t let mortals prevail!
Let the nations be judged in your presence.
^21 (20) Strike them with terror, Adonai!
Let the nations know they are only human. (Selah)

10 Why, Adonai, do you stand at a distance?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
² The wicked in their arrogance hunt down the poor,
who get caught in the schemes they think up.

³ For the wicked boasts about his lusts;
he blesses greed and despises Adonai.
⁴ Every scheme of the wicked in his arrogance [says],
“There is no God, [so] it won’t be held against me.”
⁵ His ways prosper at all times.
Your judgments are way up there,
so he takes no notice.
His adversaries? He scoffs at them all.
⁶ In his heart he thinks, “I will never be shaken;
I won’t meet trouble, not now or ever.”
⁷ His mouth is full of curses, deceit, oppression;
under his tongue, mischief and injustice.
⁸ He waits near settlements in ambush
and kills an innocent man in secret;
his eyes are on the hunt for the helpless.
⁹ Lurking unseen like a lion in his lair,
he lies in wait to pounce on the poor,
then seizes the poor and drags him off in his net.
¹⁰ Yes, he stoops, crouches down low;
and the helpless wretch falls into his clutches.
¹¹ He says in his heart, “God forgets,
he hides his face, he will never see.”

¹² Arise, Adonai! God, raise your hand!
Don’t forget the humble!
¹³ Why does the wicked despise God
and say in his heart, “It won’t be held against me”?
¹⁴ You have seen; for you look at mischief and grief,
so that you can take the matter in hand.
The helpless commits himself to you;
you help the fatherless.
¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked!
As for the evil man,
search out his wickedness
until there is none left.

¹⁶ Adonai is king forever and ever!
The nations have vanished from his land.
¹⁷ Adonai, you have heard what the humble want;
you encourage them and listen to them,
¹⁸ to give justice to the fatherless and oppressed,
so that no one on earth will strike terror again.