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    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 139
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  "data": {
    "n": 139,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-139:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.1",
        "text": "O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me]."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-139:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.2",
        "text": "Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-139:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.3",
        "text": "Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-139:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.4",
        "text": "For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-139:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.5",
        "text": "Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thy hand upon me."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-139:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.6",
        "text": "[Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-139:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.7",
        "text": "Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-139:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.8",
        "text": "If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-139:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.9",
        "text": "If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-139:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.10",
        "text": "Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-139:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.11",
        "text": "If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-139:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.12",
        "text": "Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee]."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-139:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.13",
        "text": "For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother`s womb."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-139:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.14",
        "text": "I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and       wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-139:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.15",
        "text": "My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, [And] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-139:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.16",
        "text": "Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, [Even] the days that were ordained [for me], When as yet there was none of them."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-139:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.17",
        "text": "How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-139:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.18",
        "text": "If I should count them, they are more in number than       the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PSA-139:19",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.19",
        "text": "Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PSA-139:20",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.20",
        "text": "For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take [thy name] in vain."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PSA-139:21",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.21",
        "text": "Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PSA-139:22",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.22",
        "text": "I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PSA-139:23",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.23",
        "text": "Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "PSA-139:24",
        "verseRef": "Ps.139.24",
        "text": "And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.           Psalm 140       For the Chief Musician.  A Psalm of David."
      }
    ]
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