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    "language": "en",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 56
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  "data": {
    "n": 56,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "title": "",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-56:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.1",
        "text": "Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-56:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.2",
        "text": "Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-56:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.3",
        "text": "What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-56:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.4",
        "text": "In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me?"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-56:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.5",
        "text": "All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-56:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.6",
        "text": "They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-56:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.7",
        "text": "Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-56:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.8",
        "text": "Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-56:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.9",
        "text": "Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-56:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.10",
        "text": "In God (I will praise [his] word), In Jehovah (I will praise [his] word),"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-56:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.11",
        "text": "In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do unto me?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-56:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.12",
        "text": "Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-offerings unto thee."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-56:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.56.13",
        "text": "For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [Hast thou] not [delivered] my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?           Psalm 57  For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tash-heth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave."
      }
    ]
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