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    "language": "en",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 18
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 18,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-18:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.1",
        "text": "I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-18:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.2",
        "text": "Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-18:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.3",
        "text": "I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-18:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.4",
        "text": "The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-18:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.5",
        "text": "The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-18:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.6",
        "text": "In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-18:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.7",
        "text": "Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-18:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.8",
        "text": "There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-18:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.9",
        "text": "He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-18:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.10",
        "text": "And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-18:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.11",
        "text": "He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round       about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-18:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.12",
        "text": "At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-18:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.13",
        "text": "Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-18:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.14",
        "text": "And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-18:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.15",
        "text": "Then the channels of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare, At thy rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-18:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.16",
        "text": "He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-18:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.17",
        "text": "He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-18:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.18",
        "text": "They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PSA-18:19",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.19",
        "text": "He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PSA-18:20",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.20",
        "text": "Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PSA-18:21",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.21",
        "text": "For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PSA-18:22",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.22",
        "text": "For all his ordinances were before me, And I put not away his statutes from me."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PSA-18:23",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.23",
        "text": "I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "PSA-18:24",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.24",
        "text": "Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my       righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "PSA-18:25",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.25",
        "text": "With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "PSA-18:26",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.26",
        "text": "With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "PSA-18:27",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.27",
        "text": "For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "PSA-18:28",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.28",
        "text": "For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "PSA-18:29",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.29",
        "text": "For by thee I run upon a troop; And by my God do I leap over a wall."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "PSA-18:30",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.30",
        "text": "As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Jehovah is tried; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "PSA-18:31",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.31",
        "text": "For who is God, save Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God,"
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "PSA-18:32",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.32",
        "text": "The God that girdeth me with strength, And maketh my way perfect?"
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "PSA-18:33",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.33",
        "text": "He maketh my feet like hinds` [feet]: And setteth me upon my high places."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "PSA-18:34",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.34",
        "text": "He teacheth my hands to war; So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "PSA-18:35",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.35",
        "text": "Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation; And thy right hand hath holden me up, And thy gentleness hath made me great."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "PSA-18:36",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.36",
        "text": "Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "PSA-18:37",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.37",
        "text": "I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; Neither will I turn again till they are consumed."
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "PSA-18:38",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.38",
        "text": "I will smite them through, so that they shall not be       able to rise: They shall fall under my feet."
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "PSA-18:39",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.39",
        "text": "For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me."
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "PSA-18:40",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.40",
        "text": "Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto       me, That I might cut off them that hate me."
      },{
        "n": 41,
        "refId": "PSA-18:41",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.41",
        "text": "They cried, but there was none to save; Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not."
      },{
        "n": 42,
        "refId": "PSA-18:42",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.42",
        "text": "Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets."
      },{
        "n": 43,
        "refId": "PSA-18:43",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.43",
        "text": "Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me."
      },{
        "n": 44,
        "refId": "PSA-18:44",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.44",
        "text": "As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me."
      },{
        "n": 45,
        "refId": "PSA-18:45",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.45",
        "text": "The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places."
      },{
        "n": 46,
        "refId": "PSA-18:46",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.46",
        "text": "Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation,"
      },{
        "n": 47,
        "refId": "PSA-18:47",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.47",
        "text": "Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And subdueth peoples under me."
      },{
        "n": 48,
        "refId": "PSA-18:48",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.48",
        "text": "He rescueth me from mine enemies; Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from the violent man."
      },{
        "n": 49,
        "refId": "PSA-18:49",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.49",
        "text": "Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among       the nations, And will sing praises unto thy name."
      },{
        "n": 50,
        "refId": "PSA-18:50",
        "verseRef": "Ps.18.50",
        "text": "Great deliverance giveth he to his king, And showeth lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for evermore.           Psalm 19  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David."
      }
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