{
  "1": "Yahweh, God of my salvation,\n\\q I cry out day and night before you.\n\\q",
  "2": "Listen to my prayer;\n\\q pay attention to my cry.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "3": "For I am filled with troubles,\n\\q and my life has reached Sheol.\n\\q",
  "4": "People treat me like those who go down into the pit;\n\\q I am a man with no strength.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "5": "I am abandoned among the dead;\n\\q I am like the dead who lie in the grave,\n\\q about whom you care no more\n\\q because they are cut off from your power.\n\\q",
  "6": "You place me in the lowest part of the pit,\n\\q in the dark and deep places.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "7": "Your wrath lies heavy on me,\n\\q and all your waves crash over me.\n\\qs Selah\\qs*\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "8": "Because of you, my acquaintances avoid me.\n\\q You have made me a shocking sight to them.\n\\q I am hemmed in and I cannot escape.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "9": "My eyes grow weary from trouble;\n\\q All day long I call out to you, Yahweh;\n\\q I spread out my hands to you.\n\\q",
  "10": "Will you do wonders for the dead?\n\\q Will those who have died rise and praise you?\n\\qs Selah\\qs*\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "11": "Will your covenant faithfulness be proclaimed in the grave,\n\\q your loyalty in the place of the dead?\n\\q",
  "12": "Will your wonderful deeds be known in the darkness,\n\\q or your righteousness in the place of forgetfulness?\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "13": "But I cry to you, Yahweh;\n\\q in the morning my prayer comes before you.\n\\q",
  "14": "Yahweh, why do you reject me?\n\\q Why do you hide your face from me?\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "15": "I have always been afflicted and on the verge of death since my youth.\n\\q I have suffered from your terrors; I am in despair.\n\\q",
  "16": "Your angry actions have passed over me,\n\\q and your terrifying deeds have annihilated me.\n\n\\s5\n\\q",
  "17": "They surround me like water all the day long;\n\\q they have all encircled me.\n\\q",
  "18": "You have removed every friend and acquaintance from me.\n\\q My only acquaintance is the darkness.\n\n\n\\s5",
  "front": "\\m\n\\d A song, a psalm of the sons of Korah; for the chief musician; set to the Mahalath Leannoth style. A maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.\n\\q"
}