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    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 39
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    "n": 39,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "title": "",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-39:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.1",
        "text": "I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-39:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.2",
        "text": "I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-39:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.3",
        "text": "My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: [Then] spake I with my tongue:"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-39:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.4",
        "text": "Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-39:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.5",
        "text": "Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.     Selah"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-39:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.6",
        "text": "Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-39:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.7",
        "text": "And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-39:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.8",
        "text": "Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-39:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.9",
        "text": "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-39:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.10",
        "text": "Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-39:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.11",
        "text": "When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity.     Selah"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-39:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.12",
        "text": "Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-39:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.39.13",
        "text": "Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.           Psalm 40  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David."
      }
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