Bible Gateway passage: Psalm 9, Psalm 15 - New King James Version (2024)

Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Lord’s Righteous Judgments

To the Chief Musician. To the tune of ^[a]“Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David.

9I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart;
I will tell of all Your marvelous works.
²I will be glad and ^(A)rejoice in You;
I will sing praise to Your name, ^(B)O Most High.

³When my enemies turn back,
They shall fall and perish at Your presence.
⁴For You have maintained my right and my cause;
You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.
⁵You have rebuked the ^[b]nations,
You have destroyed the wicked;
You have ^(C)blotted out their name forever and ever.

⁶O enemy, destructions are finished forever!
And you have destroyed cities;
Even their memory has ^(D)perished.
^7(E)But the Lord shall endure forever;
He has prepared His throne for judgment.
^8(F)He shall judge the world in righteousness,
And He shall administer judgment for the peoples in uprightness.

⁹The Lord also will be a ^(G)refuge^[c] for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of trouble.
¹⁰And those who ^(H)know Your name will put their trust in You;
For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

¹¹Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion!
^(I)Declare His deeds among the people.
^12(J)When He avenges blood, He remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the ^[d]humble.

¹³Have mercy on me, O Lord!
Consider my trouble from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴That I may tell of all Your praise
In the gates of ^[e]the daughter of Zion.
I will ^(K)rejoice in Your salvation.

^15(L)The ^[f]nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.
¹⁶The Lord is ^(M)known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
^(N)Meditation.^[g] Selah

¹⁷The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the ^[h]nations ^(O)that forget God.
^18(P)For the needy shall not always be forgotten;
^(Q)The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

¹⁹Arise, O Lord,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the ^[i]nations be judged in Your sight.
²⁰Put them in fear, O Lord,
That the ^[j]nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah

The Character of Those Who May Dwell with the Lord

A Psalm of David.

15Lord, ^(A)who may ^[a]abide in Your tabernacle?
Who may dwell in Your holy hill?

²He who walks uprightly,
And works righteousness,
And speaks the ^(B)truth in his heart;
³He who ^(C)does not backbite with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
^(D)Nor does he ^[b]take up a reproach against his friend;
^4(E)In whose eyes a vile person is despised,
But he honors those who fear the Lord;
He who ^(F)swears to his own hurt and does not change;
⁵He who does not put out his money at usury,
Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent.

He who does these things ^(G)shall never be moved.