Book Two (Psalms 42-72) "Concerning Israel as a Nation"
A Psalm of David.
1: Save me, O God;
for the waters are come in unto my soul.
2: I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
3: I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4: 
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
5: O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
6: Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7: Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8: I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
9: For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
10: When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11: I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12: They that sit in the gate speak against me;
and I was the song of the drunkards.
13: But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
14: Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15: Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16: Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
17: And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18: Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:
deliver me because of mine enemies.
19: Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
20: Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness:
and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21: They gave me also gall for my meat;
and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22: Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23: Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24: Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25: Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26: For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
27: Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28: Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29: But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30: I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31: This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
32: The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
33: For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
34: Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and everything that moveth therein.
35: For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
36: The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
To the chief Musician.
4. They that hate me without a cause Quoted in John 15:25.
subtitle To the chief Musician. See The Companion Bible, Appendix 64.