Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God:
defend me from them that rise up against me.
² Deliver me from the workers of iniquity,
and save me from bloody men.
³ For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul:
the mighty are gathered against me;
not for my transgression,
nor for my sin,
O LORD.
⁴ They run and prepare themselves without my fault:
awake to help me,
and behold.
⁵ Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts,
the God of Israel,
awake to visit all the heathen:
be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.
Selah.

⁶ They return at evening:
they make a noise like a dog,
and go round about the city.
⁷ Behold, they belch out with their mouth:
swords are in their lips:
for who, say they, doth hear?
⁸ But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them;
thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
⁹ Because of his strength will I wait upon thee:
for God is my defence.
¹⁰ The God of my mercy shall prevent me:
God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
¹¹ Slay them not,
lest my people forget:
scatter them by thy power;
and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
¹² For the sin of their mouth
and the words of their lips
let them even be taken in their pride:
and for cursing and lying which they speak.
¹³ Consume them in wrath,
consume them,
that they may not be:
and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob
unto the ends of the earth.
Selah.

¹⁴ And at evening let them return;
and let them make a noise like a dog,
and go round about the city.
¹⁵ Let them wander up and down for meat,
and grudge if they be not satisfied.
¹⁶ But I will sing of thy power;
yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning:
for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.
¹⁷ Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing:
for God is my defence,
and the God of my mercy.

* 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.]