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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 49
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 49,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-49:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.1",
        "text": "Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-49:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.2",
        "text": "Both low and high, Rich and poor together."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-49:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.3",
        "text": "My mouth shall speak wisdom; And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-49:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.4",
        "text": "I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-49:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.5",
        "text": "Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-49:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.6",
        "text": "They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-49:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.7",
        "text": "None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him;"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-49:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.8",
        "text": "(For the redemption of their life is costly, And it faileth for ever;)"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-49:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.9",
        "text": "That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-49:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.10",
        "text": "For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-49:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.11",
        "text": "Their inward thought is, [that] their houses [shall       continue] for ever, [And] their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-49:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.12",
        "text": "But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-49:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.13",
        "text": "This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings.     Selah"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-49:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.14",
        "text": "They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-49:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.15",
        "text": "But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me.     Selah"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-49:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.16",
        "text": "Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-49:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.17",
        "text": "For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-49:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.18",
        "text": "Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,)"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PSA-49:19",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.19",
        "text": "He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PSA-49:20",
        "verseRef": "Ps.49.20",
        "text": "Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.           Psalm 50  A Psalm of Asaph."
      }
    ]
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