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    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 102
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    "n": 102,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-102:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.1",
        "text": "Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And let my cry come unto thee."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-102:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.2",
        "text": "Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress: Incline thine ear unto me; In the day when I call answer me speedily."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-102:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.3",
        "text": "For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-102:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.4",
        "text": "My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-102:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.5",
        "text": "By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-102:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.6",
        "text": "I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-102:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.7",
        "text": "I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-102:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.8",
        "text": "Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-102:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.9",
        "text": "For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-102:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.10",
        "text": "Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-102:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.11",
        "text": "My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-102:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.12",
        "text": "But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever; And thy memorial [name] unto all generations."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-102:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.13",
        "text": "Thou wilt arise, and have mercy upon Zion; For it is time to have pity upon her, Yea, the set time is come."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-102:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.14",
        "text": "For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-102:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.15",
        "text": "So the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, And all the kings of the earth thy glory."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-102:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.16",
        "text": "For Jehovah hath built up Zion; He hath appeared in his glory."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-102:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.17",
        "text": "He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute, And hath not despised their prayer."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-102:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.18",
        "text": "This shall be written for the generation to come; And a people which shall be created shall praise Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PSA-102:19",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.19",
        "text": "For he hath looked down from the height of his       sanctuary; From heaven did Jehovah behold the earth;"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PSA-102:20",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.20",
        "text": "To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To loose those that are appointed to death;"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PSA-102:21",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.21",
        "text": "That men may declare the name of Jehovah in Zion, And his praise in Jerusalem;"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PSA-102:22",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.22",
        "text": "When the peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PSA-102:23",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.23",
        "text": "He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "PSA-102:24",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.24",
        "text": "I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my       days: Thy years are throughout all generations."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "PSA-102:25",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.25",
        "text": "Of old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth; And the heavens are the work of thy hands."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "PSA-102:26",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.26",
        "text": "They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "PSA-102:27",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.27",
        "text": "But thou art the same, And thy years shall have no end."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "PSA-102:28",
        "verseRef": "Ps.102.28",
        "text": "The children of thy servants shall continue, And their seed shall be established before thee.           Psalm 103       [A Psalm] of David."
      }
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