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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 7
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 7,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-7:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.1",
        "text": "O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge: Save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-7:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.2",
        "text": "Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-7:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.3",
        "text": "O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-7:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.4",
        "text": "If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine       adversary;)"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-7:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.5",
        "text": "Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust.     Selah"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-7:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.6",
        "text": "Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-7:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.7",
        "text": "And let the congregation of the peoples compass thee about; And over them return thou on high."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-7:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.8",
        "text": "Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples: Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine       integrity that is in me."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-7:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.9",
        "text": "O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but       establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-7:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.10",
        "text": "My shield is with God, Who saveth the upright in heart."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-7:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.11",
        "text": "God is a righteous judge, Yea, a God that hath indignation every day."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-7:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.12",
        "text": "If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-7:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.13",
        "text": "He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery [shafts]."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-7:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.14",
        "text": "Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-7:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.15",
        "text": "He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-7:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.16",
        "text": "His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-7:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.7.17",
        "text": "I will give thanks unto Jehovah according to his       righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of Jehovah Most High.           Psalm 8  For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David."
      }
    ]
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