Misc Praise Songs – Psalm 9 (Guitar)

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I will now give wholehearted thanks to the LORD,

    C      Am   D     Em  G          D G
And all of Your marvelous works will record.

            D  G           Em   G  D
In You will be glad and exultingly cry,

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And praise to your name will I  sing, O Most High.

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When backward my foes were all turned in despair,

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They stumbeled and perished be-cause You were there.

             D G         Em        G   D
For you have defended my judgement and cause;

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You sat in just judgment upholding Your laws.

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You chided the nations, the wicked destroyed;

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Their names You e-rased  and forever made void.

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The foe is consumed, is completely e-rased,

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Their cities destroyed and their mem'ry effaced.

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The LORD will e - ternally sit on His throne,

  C      Am  D      Em  G       D G
Establishing it for His judment a-lone.

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In righteousness He'll judge the world from His seat

G   C    Am  D       Em    G    D7 G
And unto all peoples shall equitey mete

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The LORD is a  stronghold, a  lofty strong tow'r,

    C       Am  D          Em    G         D    G
for all the o - pressed in their troubles' dark hour.

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Those knowing Your name LORD trust You for Your grace;

G   C        Am D     Em    G       D7   G
You have not forsaken those seeking Your face.

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Sing praise to the LORD, Who in Zion does dwell;

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Among all the peoples His great doings tell.

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When blood He a-venges, His mem'ry is clear;

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The cry of the poor never fades from His ear.

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LORD, see what I  suffer from malice and hate;

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Have mercy! O  lift me a - way from death's gate,

            D   G           Em   G   D
That I with the daughter of Zion may voice

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Your praises, and in Your sal-vation re-joice

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The nations are sunk in the pit they prepared;

      C       Am  D         Em   G      D G
Their foot in the net which they hid is ensnared.

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The LORD by His judgement has made Himself known,

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He by their own works has the wicked o'erthrown.

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The wicked to death's dark abode shall be brought,

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And all of the nations who God have forgot.

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Forgotten no longer the cause of the weak,

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Nor perished forever the hope of the meek.

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Rise, LORD, that mere man may not make himself strong;

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Let nations be judged in Your presence  for wrong.

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Strike terror within them, O Lord always then

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Let nations know truly that they are mere men