4. For you have maintained my just cause.You sit on the throne judging righteously.
5. You have rebuked the nations.You have destroyed the wicked.You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6. The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin.The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
7. But the Lord reigns forever.He has prepared his throne for judgment.
8. He will judge the world in righteousness.He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
9. The Lord will also be a high tower for the oppressed;a high tower in times of trouble.
10. Those who know your name will put their trust in you,for you, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
11. Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion,and declare among the people what he has done.
12. For he who avenges blood remembers them.He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
13. Have mercy on me, Lord.See my affliction by those who hate me,and lift me up from the gates of death;
14. that I may show all of your praise.In 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 net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
16. The Lord has made himself known.He has executed judgment.The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.