1 - ?For the director of music. To the tune of "The Death of the Son." A psalm of David.?
I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

2 - I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

3 - My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.

4 - For you have upheld my right and my cause, sitting enthroned as the righteous judge.

5 - You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.

6 - Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.

7 - The Lord reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.

8 - He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity.

9 - The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

10 - Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.

11 - Sing the praises of the Lord, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.

12 - For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.

13 - Lord, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,

14 - that I may declare your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion, and there rejoice in your salvation.

15 - The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

16 - The Lord is known by his acts of justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. The Hebrew has [Higgaion] and [Selah] (words of uncertain meaning) here; [Selah] occurs also at the end of verse 20.

17 - The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.

18 - But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.

19 - Arise, Lord, do not let mortals triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.

20 - Strike them with terror, Lord; let the nations know they are only mortal.