Psalm 9

English Standard Version

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

^[a] To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben.^[b] A Psalm of David.

9 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your ^(A)wonderful deeds.
²I will be glad and ^(B)exult in you;
I will ^(C)sing praise to your name, ^(D)O Most High.

³When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before^[c] your presence.
⁴For you have ^(E)maintained my just cause;
you have ^(F)sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

⁵You have ^(G)rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
    you have ^(H)blotted out their name forever and ever.
⁶The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.

⁷But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
⁸and he ^(I)judges the world with righteousness;
he ^(J)judges the peoples with uprightness.

⁹The Lord is ^(K)a stronghold for ^(L)the oppressed,
a stronghold in ^(M)times of trouble.
¹⁰And those who ^(N)know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹Sing praises to the Lord, who ^(O)sits enthroned in Zion!
Tell among the peoples his ^(P)deeds!
¹²For he who ^(Q)avenges blood is mindful of them;
he ^(R)does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³^(S)Be gracious to me, O Lord!
    See my affliction from those who hate me,
    O you who lift me up from ^(T)the gates of death,
¹⁴that I may recount all your praises,
    that in the gates of ^(U)the daughter of Zion
    I may ^(V)rejoice in your salvation.

¹⁵The nations have sunk in ^(W)the pit that they made;
in ^(X)the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
¹⁶The Lord has made himself ^(Y)known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.^[d] Selah

¹⁷The wicked shall ^(Z)return to Sheol,
all the nations that ^(AA)forget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
and ^(AB)the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

¹⁹^(AC)Arise, O Lord! Let not ^(AD)man prevail;
let the nations be judged before you!
²⁰Put them in fear, O Lord!
Let the nations know that they are but ^(AE)men! Selah

Footnotes

Psalm 9:1 Psalms 9 and 10 together follow an acrostic pattern, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they form one psalm
Psalm 9:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 9:3 Or because of
Psalm 9:16 Probably a musical or liturgical term

Psalm 11

English Standard Version

The Lord Is in His Holy Temple

To the choirmaster. Of David.

11 In the Lord I take refuge;
how can you say to my soul,
    ^(A)“Flee like a bird to your mountain,
²for behold, the wicked ^(B)bend the bow;
    ^(C)they have fitted their arrow to the string
    to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;
³if ^(D)the foundations are destroyed,
    what can the righteous do?”^[a]

⁴^(E)The Lord is in his holy temple;
    the Lord's ^(F)throne is in heaven;
    his eyes see, his eyelids ^(G)test the children of man.
⁵The Lord ^(H)tests the righteous,
    but ^(I)his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
⁶Let him rain coals on the wicked;
    ^(J)fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be ^(K)the portion of their cup.
⁷For the Lord is righteous;
he ^(L)loves righteous deeds;
    ^(M)the upright shall behold his face.

Footnotes

Psalm 11:3 Or for the foundations will be destroyed; what has the righteous done?

John 8:1-27

English Standard Version

8 ¹but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ²^(A)Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and ^(B)he sat down and taught them. ³The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst ⁴they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. ⁵Now ^(C)in the Law, Moses commanded us ^(D)to stone such women. So what do you say?” ⁶This they said ^(E)to test him, ^(F)that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. ⁷And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, ^(G)“Let him who is without sin among you ^(H)be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. ⁹But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. ¹⁰Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” ¹¹She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, ^(I)“Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on ^(J)sin no more.”]]

I Am the Light of the World

¹²^(K)Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ^(L)“I am the light of the world. Whoever ^(M)follows me will not ^(N)walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” ¹³So the Pharisees said to him, ^(O)“You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” ¹⁴Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, ^(P)my testimony is true, for I know ^(Q)where I came from and ^(R)where I am going, but ^(S)you do not know where I come from or where I am going. ¹⁵^(T)You judge according to the flesh; ^(U)I judge no one. ¹⁶Yet even if I do judge, ^(V)my judgment is true, for ^(W)it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father^[a] who sent me. ¹⁷^(X)In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. ¹⁸I am the one who bears witness about myself, and ^(Y)the Father who sent me bears witness about me.” ¹⁹They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, ^(Z)“You know neither me nor my Father. ^(AA)If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” ²⁰These words he spoke in ^(AB)the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but ^(AC)no one arrested him, because ^(AD)his hour had not yet come.

²¹So he said to them again, ^(AE)“I am going away, and ^(AF)you will seek me, and ^(AG)you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” ²²So the Jews said, ^(AH)“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” ²³He said to them, ^(AI)“You are from below; I am from above. ^(AJ)You are of this world; ^(AK)I am not of this world. ²⁴I told you that you ^(AL)would die in your sins, for ^(AM)unless you believe that ^(AN)I am he you will die in your sins.” ²⁵So they said to him, ^(AO)“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. ²⁶I have much to say about you and much to judge, but ^(AP)he who sent me is true, and I declare ^(AQ)to the world ^(AR)what I have heard from him.” ²⁷They did not understand that ^(AS)he had been speaking to them about the Father.