[1] All my heart will give thanks to You, Eternal One. I will tell others about Your amazing works. [2] I will be glad and celebrate You! I will praise You, O Most High! [3] When my adversaries turned and fled, they fell and died right in front of You, [4] For You supported my just cause. From Your throne, You have judged wisely. [5] You confronted the nations; You have destroyed the wicked. You have erased their names from history. [6] The enemy is finished, their time is up; their cities will lie in ruin forever; all memory of them is gone. [7] Still the Eternal remains and will reign forever; He has taken His place on His throne for judgment. [8] So He will judge the world rightly. He shall execute that judgment equally on all people. [9] For the Eternal will be a shelter for those who know misery, a refuge during troubling times. [10] Those who know Your name will rely on You, for You, O Eternal One, have not abandoned those who search for You. [11] Praise Him who lives on Zion's holy hill. Tell the story of His great acts among the people! [12] For He remembers the victims of violence and avenges their blood; He does not turn a deaf ear to the cry of the needy. [13] Be gracious to me, O Eternal One. Notice the harm I have suffered because of my enemies, You who carry me safely away from death's door, [14] So that I may rehearse Your deeds, declare Your praise, and rejoice in Your rescue when I take my stand in the gates of Zion. [15] The nations have fallen into the pit they dug for others, their own feet caught, snared by the net they hid. [16] The Eternal is well known, for He has taken action and secured justice; He has trapped the wicked through the work of their own hands. [pause with music] [17] The wicked are headed for death and the grave; all the nations who forget the True God will share a similar fate. [18] For those in need shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor will never die. [19] Eternal One, arise! Do not allow mere mortals to win the day. Judge the nations Yourself. [20] Put the fear of God in them, Eternal One! Remind the nations they are mere men, not gods. [pause]
