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    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 71
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  "data": {
    "n": 71,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-71:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.1",
        "text": "In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge: Let me never be put to shame."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-71:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.2",
        "text": "Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me: Bow down thine ear unto me, and save me."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-71:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.3",
        "text": "Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may       continually resort: Thou hast given commandment to save me; For thou art my rock and my fortress."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-71:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.4",
        "text": "Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-71:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.5",
        "text": "For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: [Thou art] my trust from my youth."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-71:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.6",
        "text": "By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother`s bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-71:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.7",
        "text": "I am as a wonder unto many; But thou art my strong refuge."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-71:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.8",
        "text": "My mouth shall be filled with thy praise, And with thy honor all the day."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-71:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.9",
        "text": "Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-71:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.10",
        "text": "For mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-71:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.11",
        "text": "Saying, God hath forsaken him: Pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-71:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.12",
        "text": "O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-71:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.13",
        "text": "Let them be put to shame [and] consumed that are       adversaries to my soul; Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-71:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.14",
        "text": "But I will hope continually, And will praise thee yet more and more."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-71:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.15",
        "text": "My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, [And] of thy salvation all the day; For I know not the numbers [thereof]."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-71:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.16",
        "text": "I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-71:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.17",
        "text": "O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-71:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.18",
        "text": "Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake       me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto [the next] generation, Thy might to every one that is to come."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PSA-71:19",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.19",
        "text": "Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PSA-71:20",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.20",
        "text": "Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PSA-71:21",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.21",
        "text": "Increase thou my greatness, And turn again and comfort me."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PSA-71:22",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.22",
        "text": "I will also praise thee with the psaltery, [Even] thy truth, O my God: Unto thee will I sing praises with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PSA-71:23",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.23",
        "text": "My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises unto       thee; And my soul, which thou hast redeemed."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "PSA-71:24",
        "verseRef": "Ps.71.24",
        "text": "My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the       day long; For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, that seek my       hurt.           Psalm 72  [A Psalm] of Solomon."
      }
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