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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, December 31, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 3

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PARAPHRASE OF PSALM IX.

By Editor

1 To thee, O Lord, with my whole heart, I bring my song of praise, I'll show the marvels of thy works, The wonders of thy ways.
2 With gladness shall my heart abound, In thee will I rejoice; And to thy name, O thou Most High, Sing praise with cheerful voice.
3 When all mine enemies turn back, When they are smitten all, They at thy presence perish, Lord, At thy rebuke they fall.
4 For thou hast well my right maintained, Thou hast upheld my cause, Thou satest in thy heavenly throne Dispensing righteous laws.
5 The heathen thy rebuke have felt, Our foes are put to rout, And evermore from under heaven, Their name hast thou put out.
6 Destructions, O thou enemy, Have wholly thee consumed, And cities, thy memorial, Shall never be exhumed.
7 But God forever shall endure, His throne he hath prepared,
8 To render to a guilty world Its true and just award. He judgment to the people in Uprightness shall dispense,
9 And make the oppressed in troublous times, A refuge and defense.
10 And they, O Lord, who know thy name Shall all on thee rely, For thou hast not forsaken them, Who seek thy throne on high.
11 Sing praises, yea, sing praises to The Lord who dwells above, Among the people loud proclaim His deeds of power and love.
12 For when in wrath, he searches out Dark deeds of crime and blood, The cry of all his humble poor Is in the ear of God.
13 Have mercy, Lord, and mark the ills Which from my foes I meet, O thou who from the gates of death Dost turn my trembling feet.
14 That I may show thy praises forth Where Zion's children dwell, For thy salvation is my theme, I joy thy power to tell.
15 The heathen in the pit are sunk Which they for others made, Into the net for others hid Is their own foot betrayed.
16 Thus by the judgments he performs The Lord of hosts is known, The wicked in his own vile schemes Is snared and overthrown.
17 All they shall into hell be turned, And fierce perdition find, And all the nations who their God Bear not in reverend mind.
18 The needy shall not always seem Forgotten of the Lord, Nor shall the poor forever wait To meet his just reward.
19 Arise, arise, O Lord of hosts And let not man prevail, And in thy sight, let all the boasts Of all the heathen fail.
20 Down to the depths of fear and dread The hearts of nations bring, That they may know themselves but men And God alone their king.—Ed.