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    "chapter": 27
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    "n": 27,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-27:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.1",
        "text": "Jehovah is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-27:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.2",
        "text": "When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [Even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-27:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.3",
        "text": "Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-27:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.4",
        "text": "One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-27:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.5",
        "text": "For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his       pavilion: In the covert of his tabernacle will he hide me; He will lift me up upon a rock."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-27:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.6",
        "text": "And now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies       round about me. And I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-27:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.7",
        "text": "Hear, O Jehovah, when I cry with my voice: Have mercy also upon me, and answer me."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-27:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.8",
        "text": "[When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; My heart said unto thee, Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-27:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.9",
        "text": "Hide not thy face from me; Put not thy servant away in anger: Thou hast been my help; Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-27:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.10",
        "text": "When my father and my mother forsake me, Then Jehovah will take me up."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-27:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.11",
        "text": "Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; And lead me in a plain path, Because of mine enemies."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-27:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.12",
        "text": "Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-27:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.13",
        "text": "[I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the       goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-27:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.27.14",
        "text": "Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, and let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.           Psalm 28  [A Psalm] of David."
      }
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