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    "chapter": 53
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    "n": 53,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-53:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.53.1",
        "text": "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none that doeth good."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-53:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.53.2",
        "text": "God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-53:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.53.3",
        "text": "Every one of them is gone back; they are together become       filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-53:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.53.4",
        "text": "Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon God?"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-53:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.53.5",
        "text": "There were they in great fear, where no fear was; For God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against       thee: Thou hast put them to shame, because of God hath rejected them."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-53:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.53.6",
        "text": "Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Then shall Jacob rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.           Psalm 54  For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David; when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?"
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