We have heard with our ears, O God,
our fathers have told us,
what work thou didst in their days,
in the times of old.
² How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand,
and plantedst them;
how thou didst afflict the people,
and cast them out.
³ For they got not the land in possession by their own sword [For not by their sword they occupied land],
neither did their own arm save them:
but thy right hand,
and thine arm,
and the light of thy countenance,
because thou hadst a favour unto them.

⁴ Thou art my King, O God:
command deliverances for Jacob.
⁵ Through thee will we push down our enemies:
through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
⁶ For I will not trust in my bow,
neither shall my sword save me.
⁷ But thou hast saved us from our enemies,
and hast put them to shame that hated us.
⁸ In God we boast all the day long,
and praise thy name for ever.
Selah.

⁹ But thou hast cast off,
and put us to shame;
and goest not forth with our armies.
¹⁰ Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy:
and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
¹¹ Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat;
and hast scattered us among the heathen.
¹² Thou sellest thy people for nought,
and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
¹³ Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours,
a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
¹⁴ Thou makest us a byword among the heathen,
a shaking of the head among the people.
¹⁵ My confusion is continually [all of the day] before me,
and the shame of my face hath covered me,
¹⁶ For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth;
by reason of [from faces of] the enemy and avenger.

¹⁷ All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back,
neither have our steps declined from thy way;
¹⁹ Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons,
and covered us with the shadow of death.
²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God,
or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
²¹ Shall not God search this out?
for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
²² Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long;
we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³ Awake,
why sleepest thou, O Lord?
arise,
cast us not off for ever.
²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face,
and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵ For our soul is bowed down to the dust:
our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
²⁶ Arise for our help,
and redeem us for thy mercies' sake [on account of your loving-kindness].

* 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.]