{"slug": "doreancon-psalm-119-kaf", "title": "Psalm 119:81-88 (Kaf)", "first_line": "My soul for thy salvation faints", "author_source": "Scottish Psalter, 1650; rev. #doreancon, 2026", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": true, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "psalm": 119, "topics": ["Psalms"], "scripture": ["Psalm 119:81-88"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "doreancon-2026", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "encoding_origin": "gitlab.com/svrbc/doreancon.org \u2014 hymns/2026/musicxml (lyrics only; music intentionally not imported)", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Metrical text: The Psalms of David in Metre (Scottish Psalter), 1650 \u2014 Psalm 119, verses 81-88 (Kaf); committee versification (Rous revision), all contributors d. before 1700; public domain (pub. 1650). Sung text follows the #doreancon 2026 conference hymnal (doreancon.org), which presents the 1650 text 'minimally edited for clearer rhyme and metre in modern English' (2026.doreancon.org/hymns); the conference repository's owner confirmed to the book owner that his light 2026 edits are public domain (owner attestation, 2026-08-14). Lyrics-only extraction from the conference MusicXML (gitlab.com/svrbc/doreancon.org); inline verse-number superscripts and the terminal sung Amen dropped; every stanza machine-checked against the metre and cross-checked against the corpus 1650 base text.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "My soul for thy sal -- va -- tion faints; thy word my hope shall be. Mine eyes fail for thy word: I say, When wilt thou com -- fort me? For like a bot -- tle I'm be -- come, that in the smoke is set: I'm black, and parched with grief; yet I thy stat -- utes not for -- get.", "prose": ["My soul for thy salvation faints;", "thy word my hope shall be.", "Mine eyes fail for thy word: I say,", "When wilt thou comfort me?", "For like a bottle I'm become,", "that in the smoke is set:", "I'm black, and parched with grief; yet I", "thy statutes not forget."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "How man -- y are thy ser -- vant's days? when wilt thou ex -- e -- cute Just judg -- ment on these wick -- ed men that keep me in pur -- suit? The proud have dug deep pits for me, which is a -- gainst thy laws. Thy words all faith -- ful are: help me, pur -- sued with -- out a cause.", "prose": ["How many are thy servant's days?", "when wilt thou execute", "Just judgment on these wicked men", "that keep me in pursuit?", "The proud have dug deep pits for me,", "which is against thy laws.", "Thy words all faithful are: help me,", "pursued without a cause."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "They so con -- sumed me, that on earth my life they scarce did leave: Thy pre -- cepts yet for -- sook I not, but close to them did cleave. Af -- ter thy lov -- ing -- kind -- ness, Lord, me quick -- en, and pre -- serve: The tes -- ti -- mon -- y of thy mouth, from which I will not swerve.", "prose": ["They so consumed me, that on earth", "my life they scarce did leave:", "Thy precepts yet forsook I not,", "but close to them did cleave.", "After thy loving-kindness, Lord,", "me quicken, and preserve:", "The testimony of thy mouth,", "from which I will not swerve."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}