their name for ever and ever.

9:7. The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities
thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise:

9:8. But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in
judgment:

9:9. And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the lpeople
in justice.

9:10. And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time
in tribulation.

9:11. And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not
forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.

9:12. Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among
the Gentiles:

9:13. For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not
forgotten the cry of the poor.

9:14. Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from
my enemies.

9:15. Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may
declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

9:16. I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in
the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the
very snare which they hid.

9:17. The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner
hath been caught in the works of his own hands.

9:18. The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget
God.

9:19. For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience
of the poor shall not perish for ever.

9:20. Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be
judged in thy sight.

9:21. Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know
themselves to be but men.

Here the late Hebrew doctors divide this psalm into two, making ver. 22
the beginning of psalm 10. And again they join Psalms 146 and 147 into
one, in order that the whole number of psalms should not exceed 150. And
in this manner the psalms are numbered in the Protestant Bible.

(Psalm Chapter 10 according to the Hebrews.)

9:1. Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in
our wants, in the time of trouble?

9:2. Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are
caught in the counsels which they devise.

9:3. For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the
unjust man is blessed.

9:4. The sinner hath provoked the Lord, according to the multitude of
his wrath, he will not seek him:

9:5. God is not before his eyes: his ways are filthy at all times. Thy
judgments are