Day II : Morning Prayer

Psalm 9 - Confitebor tibi

1   I will give thanks unto you, O Lord, with my whole heart; *
    I will speak of all your marvelous works.

2   I will be glad and rejoice in you; *
    indeed, my songs will I sing of your Name, O Most High.

3   When my enemies are driven back, *
    they shall fall and perish at your presence;

4   For you have maintained my right and my cause; *
    you sit on your throne judging right.

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

6   As for the enemy, their destruction has come; they are in perpetual ruin; *
    like the cities which you have destroyed, their memory has perished with them.

7   But the Lord sits enthroned for ever; *
    he has prepared his seat for judgment.

8   For he shall judge the world in righteousness, *
    and minister true judgment to the peoples.

9   The Lord will be a defense for the oppressed, *
    even a refuge in the time of trouble;

10  And those who know your Name will put their trust in you, *
    for you, Lord, have never failed those who seek you.

11  O praise the Lord who dwells in Zion; *
    tell the peoples what things he has done.

12  For when he takes vengeance for blood, he remembers them, *
    and forgets not the cry of the poor.

13  Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider the trouble I suffer from those who hate me, *
    O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

14  That I may tell of all your praises within the gates of the daughter of Zion; *
    I will rejoice in your salvation.

15  The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; *
    in the same net which they hid secretly is their foot caught.

16  The Lord is known to execute judgment; *
    the ungodly are trapped in the works of their own hands.

17  The wicked shall return to the grave, *
    even all the peoples that forget God.

18  For the poor shall not always be forgotten; *
    the patient hope of the meek shall not perish for ever.

19  Rise up, O Lord, and let them not have the upper hand; *
    let the nations be judged in your sight.

20  Put them in fear, O Lord, *
    that the nations may know themselves to be merely human.