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    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 55
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  "data": {
    "n": 55,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-55:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.1",
        "text": "Give ear to my prayer, O God; And hide not thyself from my supplication."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-55:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.2",
        "text": "Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan,"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-55:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.3",
        "text": "Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-55:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.4",
        "text": "My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-55:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.5",
        "text": "Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-55:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.6",
        "text": "And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-55:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.7",
        "text": "Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness.     Selah"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-55:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.8",
        "text": "I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-55:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.9",
        "text": "Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-55:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.10",
        "text": "Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-55:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.11",
        "text": "Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-55:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.12",
        "text": "For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against       me; Then I would have hid myself from him:"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-55:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.13",
        "text": "But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-55:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.14",
        "text": "We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God with the throng."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-55:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.15",
        "text": "Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-55:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.16",
        "text": "As for me, I will call upon God; And Jehovah will save me."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-55:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.17",
        "text": "Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain,       and moan; And he will hear my voice."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-55:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.18",
        "text": "He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that       was against me; For they were many [that strove] with me."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PSA-55:19",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.19",
        "text": "God will hear, and answer them, Even he that abideth of old,     Selah [The men] who have no changes, And who fear not God."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PSA-55:20",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.20",
        "text": "He hath put forth his hands against such as were at       peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PSA-55:21",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.21",
        "text": "His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PSA-55:22",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.22",
        "text": "Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee: He will never suffer the righteous to be moved."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PSA-55:23",
        "verseRef": "Ps.55.23",
        "text": "But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of       destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their       days; But I will trust in thee.           Psalm 56  For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath."
      }
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