1. I WILL praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth (recount and tell aloud) all Your marvelous works and wonderful deeds!
2. I will rejoice in You and be in high spirits; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High!
3. When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before You.
4. For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat 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 have been cut off and have vanished in everlasting ruins, You have plucked up and overthrown their cities; the very memory of them has perished and vanished.
7. But the Lord shall remain and continue forever; He has prepared and established His throne for judgment. [Heb. 1:11.]
8. And He will judge the world in righteousness (rightness and equity); He will minister justice to the peoples in uprightness. [Acts 17:31.]
9. The Lord also will be a refuge and a high tower for the oppressed, a refuge and a stronghold in times of trouble (high cost, destitution, and desperation).
10. And they who know Your name [who have experience and acquaintance with Your mercy] will lean on and confidently put their trust in You, for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek (inquire of and for) You [on the authority of God's Word and the right of their necessity]. [Ps. 42:1.]
11. Sing praises to the Lord, Who dwells in Zion! Declare among the peoples His doings!
12. For He Who avenges the blood [of His people shed unjustly] remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted (the poor and the humble).
13. Have mercy upon me and be gracious to me, O Lord; consider how I am afflicted by those who hate me, You Who lift me up from the gates of death,
14. That I may show forth (recount and tell aloud) all Your praises! In the gates of the Daughter of Zion I will rejoice in Your salvation and Your saving help.
15. The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid is their own foot caught.