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    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 73
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  "data": {
    "n": 73,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-73:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.1",
        "text": "Surely God is good to Israel, [Even] to such as are pure in heart."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-73:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.2",
        "text": "But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-73:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.3",
        "text": "For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-73:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.4",
        "text": "For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-73:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.5",
        "text": "They are not in trouble as [other] men; Neither are they plagued like [other] men."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-73:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.6",
        "text": "Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-73:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.7",
        "text": "Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-73:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.8",
        "text": "They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-73:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.9",
        "text": "They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-73:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.10",
        "text": "Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full [cup] are drained by them."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-73:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.11",
        "text": "And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-73:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.12",
        "text": "Behold, these are the wicked; And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-73:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.13",
        "text": "Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-73:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.14",
        "text": "For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-73:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.15",
        "text": "If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy       children."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-73:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.16",
        "text": "When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-73:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.17",
        "text": "Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-73:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.18",
        "text": "Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PSA-73:19",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.19",
        "text": "How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PSA-73:20",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.20",
        "text": "As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PSA-73:21",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.21",
        "text": "For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PSA-73:22",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.22",
        "text": "So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was [as] a beast before thee."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PSA-73:23",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.23",
        "text": "Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Thou hast holden my right hand."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "PSA-73:24",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.24",
        "text": "Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "PSA-73:25",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.25",
        "text": "Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "PSA-73:26",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.26",
        "text": "My flesh and my heart faileth; [But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "PSA-73:27",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.27",
        "text": "For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: Thou hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, [departing]       from thee."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "PSA-73:28",
        "verseRef": "Ps.73.28",
        "text": "But it is good for me to draw near unto God: I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge, That I may tell of all thy works.           Psalm 74  Maschil of Asaph."
      }
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