1iI will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;

I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.*

2I will be glad and exult in you;

I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.*

3When my enemies turned back,

they stumbled and perished before you.*

4For you have maintained my just cause;

you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.*

5You have rebuked the nations; you have destroyed the wicked;

you have blotted out their name forever and ever.*

6The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;

their cities you have rooted out;

the very memory of them has perished.*

7But the Lord sits enthroned forever;

he has established his throne for judgment.*

8He judges the world with righteousness;

he judges the peoples with equity.*

9The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,

a stronghold in times of trouble.*

10And those who know your name put their trust in you,

for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.*

11Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion.

Declare his deeds among the peoples.*

12For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;

he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.*

13Be gracious to me, O Lord.

See what I suffer from those who hate me;

you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death,*

14so that I may recount all your praises

and, in the gates of daughter Zion,

rejoice in your deliverance.*

15The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;

in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.*

16The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;

the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.   Higgaion. Selah*

17The wicked shall depart to Sheol,

all the nations that forget God.*

18For the needy shall not always be forgotten,

nor the hope of the poor perish forever.*

19Rise up, O Lord! Do not let mortals prevail;

let the nations be judged before you.*

20Put them in fear, O Lord;

let the nations know that they are only human.   Selah*