Hold not thy peace,
O God of my praise;
² For the mouth of the wicked
and the mouth of the deceitful
are opened against me:
they have spoken against me
with a lying tongue.
³ They compassed me about also
with words of hatred;
and fought against me without a cause.
⁴ For my love they are my adversaries:
but I give myself unto prayer.
⁵ And they have rewarded me [And they put upon me] evil for good,
and hatred for my love.

⁶ Set thou a wicked man over him:
and let Satan stand at his right hand.
⁷ When he shall be judged,
let him be condemned [he shall depart condemned]:
and let his prayer become sin.
⁸ Let his days be few;
and let another take his office.
⁹ Let his children be fatherless,
and his wife a widow.
¹⁰ Let his children be continually vagabonds [And wandering they shall wander],
and beg:
let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
¹¹ Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;
and let the strangers spoil his labour.
¹² Let there be none to extend mercy unto him:
neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
¹³ Let his posterity be cut off;
and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD;
and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
¹⁵ Let them be before the LORD continually,
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
¹⁶ Because that he remembered not to shew mercy,
but persecuted the poor and needy man,
that he might even slay the broken in heart.
¹⁷ As he loved cursing,
so let it come unto him:
as he delighted not in blessing,
so let it be far from him.
¹⁸ As he clothed himself with cursing
like as with his garment,
so let it come into his bowels like water,
and like oil into his bones.
¹⁹ Let it be unto him as the garment which coverth him,
and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
²⁰ Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD,
and of them that speak evil against my soul.

²¹ But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord,
for thy name's sake:
because thy mercy is good,
deliver thou me.
²² For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is wounded within me.
²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:
I am tossed up and down as the locust.
²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting;
and my flesh faileth of fatness.
²⁵ I became also a reproach unto them:
when they looked upon me
they shaked their heads.

²⁶ Help me, O LORD my God:
O save me according to thy mercy:
²⁷ That they may know that this is thy hand;
that thou, LORD, hast done it.
²⁸ Let them curse,
but bless thou:
when they arise,
let them be ashamed;
but let thy servant rejoice.
²⁹ Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame,
and let them cover themselves with their own confusion,
as with a mantle.
³⁰ I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth;
yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
³¹ For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
to save him from those that condemn his soul.

* 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.]