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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 10
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  "data": {
    "n": 10,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-10:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.1",
        "text": "Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-10:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.2",
        "text": "In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-10:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.3",
        "text": "For the wicked boasteth of his heart`s desire, And the covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-10:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.4",
        "text": "The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, [saith], He       will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is no God."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-10:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.5",
        "text": "His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-10:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.6",
        "text": "He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; To all generations I shall not be in adversity."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-10:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.7",
        "text": "His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-10:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.8",
        "text": "He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-10:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.9",
        "text": "He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-10:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.10",
        "text": "He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-10:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.11",
        "text": "He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-10:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.12",
        "text": "Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-10:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.13",
        "text": "Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it]?"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-10:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.14",
        "text": "Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and       spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth [himself] unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-10:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.15",
        "text": "Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find       none."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-10:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.16",
        "text": "Jehovah is King for ever and ever: The nations are perished out of his land."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-10:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.17",
        "text": "Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-10:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.10.18",
        "text": "To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.           Psalm 11  For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David."
      }
    ]
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