{
  "1": "Hear my prayer, Yahweh;\n\\q hear my cry to you.\n\\q",
  "2": "Do not hide your face from me in my time of trouble.\n\\q Listen to me.\n\\q When I call out to you, answer me quickly.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "3": "For my days pass away like smoke,\n\\q and my bones burn like fire.\n\\q",
  "4": "My heart is crushed, and I am like grass that has withered.\n\\q I forget to eat any food.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "5": "With my continual groaning,\n\\q I have become very thin.\n\\q",
  "6": "I am like a pelican of the wilderness;\n\\q I have become like an owl in the ruins.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "7": "I lie awake like a solitary bird,\n\\q alone on the housetop.\n\\q",
  "8": "My enemies taunt me all day long;\n\\q those who mock me use my name in curses.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "9": "I eat ashes like bread\n\\q and mix my drink with tears.\n\\q",
  "10": "Because of your raging anger,\n\\q you have lifted me up to throw me down.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "11": "My days are like a shadow that fades,\n\\q and I have withered like grass.\n\\q",
  "12": "But you, Yahweh, live forever,\n\\q and your fame is for all generations.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "13": "You will rise up and have mercy on Zion.\n\\q Now is the time to have mercy upon her;\n\\q the appointed time has come.\n\\q",
  "14": "For your servants hold her stones dear\n\\q and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.\n\\q",
  "15": "The nations will respect your name, Yahweh,\n\\q and all the kings of the earth will honor your glory.\n\\q",
  "16": "Yahweh will rebuild Zion\n\\q and will appear in his glory.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "17": "At that time, he will respond to the prayer of the destitute;\n\\q he will not reject their prayer.\n\\q",
  "18": "This will be written for future generations,\n\\q and a people not yet born will praise Yahweh.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "19": "For he has looked down from the holy heights;\n\\q from heaven Yahweh has viewed the earth,\n\\q",
  "20": "to hear the groaning of the prisoners,\n\\q to release those who were condemned to death.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "21": "Then men will proclaim the name of Yahweh in Zion\n\\q and his praise in Jerusalem\n\\q",
  "22": "when the peoples and kingdoms gather together\n\\q to serve Yahweh.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "23": "He has taken away my strength in the middle of life.\n\\q He has shortened my days.\n\\q",
  "24": "I said, “My God, do not take me away in the middle of life;\n\\q you are here throughout all generations.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "25": "In ancient times you set the earth in place;\n\\q the heavens are the work of your hands.\n\\q",
  "26": "They will perish, but you will remain;\n\\q they will all grow old like a garment;\n\\q like clothing, you will remove them, and they will disappear.\n\\q",
  "27": "But you are the same,\n\\q and your years will have no end.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "28": "The children of your servants will live on,\n\\q and their descendants will live in your presence.”\n\n\n\\s5",
  "front": "\\m\n\\d A prayer of the afflicted when he is faint and pours out his lament before Yahweh.\n\\q"
}
