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    "language": "en",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 38
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  "data": {
    "n": 38,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-38:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.1",
        "text": "O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-38:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.2",
        "text": "For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-38:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.3",
        "text": "There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine       indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-38:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.4",
        "text": "For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-38:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.5",
        "text": "My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-38:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.6",
        "text": "I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-38:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.7",
        "text": "For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-38:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.8",
        "text": "I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-38:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.9",
        "text": "Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-38:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.10",
        "text": "My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-38:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.11",
        "text": "My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-38:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.12",
        "text": "They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-38:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.13",
        "text": "But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-38:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.14",
        "text": "Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-38:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.15",
        "text": "For in thee, O Jehovah, do I hope: Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-38:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.16",
        "text": "For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-38:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.17",
        "text": "For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-38:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.18",
        "text": "For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my       sin."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PSA-38:19",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.19",
        "text": "But mine enemies are lively, [and] are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PSA-38:20",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.20",
        "text": "They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PSA-38:21",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.21",
        "text": "Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far from me."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PSA-38:22",
        "verseRef": "Ps.38.22",
        "text": "Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.           Psalm 39  For the Chief Musician, Jeduthun. A Psalm of David."
      }
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