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    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 69
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 69,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
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    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-69:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.1",
        "text": "Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-69:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.2",
        "text": "I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-69:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.3",
        "text": "I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-69:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.4",
        "text": "They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs       of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are       mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-69:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.5",
        "text": "O God, thou knowest my foolishness; And my sins are not hid from thee."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-69:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.6",
        "text": "Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through       me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts: Let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonor through me,       O God of Israel."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-69:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.7",
        "text": "Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath covered my face."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-69:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.8",
        "text": "I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother`s children."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-69:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.9",
        "text": "For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-69:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.10",
        "text": "When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-69:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.11",
        "text": "When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-69:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.12",
        "text": "They that sit in the gate talk of me; And [I am] the song of the drunkards."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-69:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.13",
        "text": "But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an       acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness, Answer me in the truth of thy salvation."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-69:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.14",
        "text": "Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep       waters."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-69:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.15",
        "text": "Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep shallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-69:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.16",
        "text": "Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto       me."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-69:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.17",
        "text": "And hide not thy face from thy servant; For I am in distress; answer me speedily."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-69:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.18",
        "text": "Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of mine enemies."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PSA-69:19",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.19",
        "text": "Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PSA-69:20",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.20",
        "text": "Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of       heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PSA-69:21",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.21",
        "text": "They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PSA-69:22",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.22",
        "text": "Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, [let it become] a trap."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PSA-69:23",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.23",
        "text": "Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; And make their loins continually to shake."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "PSA-69:24",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.24",
        "text": "Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "PSA-69:25",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.25",
        "text": "Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "PSA-69:26",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.26",
        "text": "For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "PSA-69:27",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.27",
        "text": "Add iniquity unto their iniquity; And let them not come into thy righteousness."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "PSA-69:28",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.28",
        "text": "Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "PSA-69:29",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.29",
        "text": "But I am poor and sorrowful: Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "PSA-69:30",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.30",
        "text": "I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify him with thanksgiving."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "PSA-69:31",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.31",
        "text": "And it will please Jehovah better than an ox, [Or] a bullock that hath horns and hoofs."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "PSA-69:32",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.32",
        "text": "The meek have seen it, and are glad: Ye that seek after God, let your heart live."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "PSA-69:33",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.33",
        "text": "For Jehovah heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "PSA-69:34",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.34",
        "text": "Let heaven and earth praise him, The seas, and everything that moveth therein."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "PSA-69:35",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.35",
        "text": "For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; And they shall abide there, and have it in possession."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "PSA-69:36",
        "verseRef": "Ps.69.36",
        "text": "The seed also of his servants shall inherit it; And they that love his name shall dwell therein.           Psalm 70  For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David; to bring to remembrance."
      }
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