Psalms 9:2–4

¹⁸That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

¹¹But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

¹⁷I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.

⁷The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

⁹For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.

⁴Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

¹IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

¹²Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

¹⁷¶ Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

¹⁸Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

⁶And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.

⁴Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

²Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

³What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

¹⁸O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:

⁴For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

⁹Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

⁷Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹¹And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

¹²And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

¹³And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

¹⁴And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

¹⁵And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

¹⁶And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

¹⁷For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

³When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

¹LET God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

²As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

¹²I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

²³Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

⁴But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

⁹Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

⁸God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

¹⁴Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

⁵The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

⁶Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

⁷Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

¹³Before the Lord: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.