[1]I WILL praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvelous works.[2]I will be glad and rejoice in thee and I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.[3]When mine enemies are beaten back, they shall stumble and perish before thy presence.[4]For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou hast sat on the throne, O thou righteous judge.[5]Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles and thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.[6]My enemies have been annihilated by the sword for ever; and thou hast destroyed the villages and their very memory hath perished.[7]But the LORD shall endure for ever; he has prepared his throne for judgment.[8]And he shall judge the world in righteousness and the people in uprightness.[9]The LORD also will be a refuge for the poor, a refuge in times of trouble.[10]And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O LORD.[11]Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion; declare among the people his skillful doings;[12]For he has remembered to avenge their blood; he forgets not the cry of the poor.[13]Have mercy upon me, O LORD, and consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, O thou that removest me away from the gates of death,[14]That I may declare all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion; I will rejoice in thy salvation.[15]The Gentiles are sunk down in the pit that they made; and their foot is caught in the net which they hid.[16]The LORD makes known the judgment which he executes; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.[17]The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, and all the peoples that forsake God.[18]For the poor shall not always be forgotten; and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.[19]Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail; let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.[20]Appoint for them a lawgiver, that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.