Unto thee will I cry,
O LORD my rock;
be not silent to me:
lest, if thou be silent to me,
I become like them that go down into the pit.
² Hear the voice of my supplications,
when I cry unto thee,
when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
³ Draw me not away with the wicked,
and with the workers of iniquity,
which speak peace to their neighbours,
but mischief is in their hearts.
⁴ Give them according to their deeds,
and according to the wickedness of their endeavours:
give them after the work of their hands;
render to them their desert.
⁵ Because they regard not the works of the LORD,
nor the operation of his hands,
he shall destroy them,
and not build them up.

⁶ Blessed be the LORD,
because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
⁷ The LORD is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusted in him,
and I am helped:
therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth;
and with my song will I praise him.
⁸ The LORD is their strength,
and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
⁹ Save thy people,
and bless thine inheritance:
feed them also,
and lift them up for ever [unto perpetuity].

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]