Keep not thou silence, O God:
hold not thy peace,
and be not still, O God.
² For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult:
and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
³ They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,
and consulted against thy hidden ones.
⁴ They have said, Come,
and let us cut them off from being a nation;
that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
⁵ For they have consulted together with one consent [one heart]:
they are confederate [a covenant they are cutting] against thee:
⁶ The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites;
of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;
the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
⁸ Assur also is joined with them:
they have holpen the children of Lot.
Selah.

⁹ Do unto them as unto the Midianites;
as to Sisera,
as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
¹⁰ Which perished at Endor:
they became as dung for the earth.
¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb:
yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
¹² Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
¹³ O my God, make them like a wheel;
as the stubble before the wind.
¹⁴ As the fire burneth a wood,
and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire [sets aflame mountains];
¹⁵ So persecute them with thy tempest,
and make them afraid with thy storm.
¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame;
that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
¹⁷ Let them be confounded and troubled for ever [unto perpetuity];
yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
¹⁸ That men may know that thou,
whose name alone is JEHOVAH,
art the most high over all the earth.

* 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.]