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    "language": "en",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 58
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  "data": {
    "n": 58,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-58:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.58.1",
        "text": "Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-58:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.58.2",
        "text": "Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-58:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.58.3",
        "text": "The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-58:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.58.4",
        "text": "Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [They are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-58:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.58.5",
        "text": "Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-58:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.58.6",
        "text": "Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-58:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.58.7",
        "text": "Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut       off."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-58:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.58.8",
        "text": "[Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-58:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.58.9",
        "text": "Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the       burning alike."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-58:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.58.10",
        "text": "The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-58:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.58.11",
        "text": "So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the       righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.           Psalm 59  For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him."
      }
    ]
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