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    "chapter": 74
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  "data": {
    "n": 74,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-74:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.1",
        "text": "O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-74:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.2",
        "text": "Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; [And] mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-74:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.3",
        "text": "Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-74:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.4",
        "text": "Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine       assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-74:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.5",
        "text": "They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-74:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.6",
        "text": "And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-74:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.7",
        "text": "They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name [by casting       it] to the ground."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-74:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.8",
        "text": "They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them       altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-74:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.9",
        "text": "We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-74:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.10",
        "text": "How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-74:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.11",
        "text": "Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? [Pluck it] out of thy bosom [and] consume [them]."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-74:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.12",
        "text": "Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-74:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.13",
        "text": "Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-74:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.14",
        "text": "Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the       wilderness."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-74:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.15",
        "text": "Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-74:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.16",
        "text": "The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-74:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.17",
        "text": "Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-74:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.18",
        "text": "Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PSA-74:19",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.19",
        "text": "Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild       beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PSA-74:20",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.20",
        "text": "Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of       violence."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PSA-74:21",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.21",
        "text": "Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PSA-74:22",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.22",
        "text": "Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PSA-74:23",
        "verseRef": "Ps.74.23",
        "text": "Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth       continually.           Psalm 75  For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tash-heth. A Psalm of Asaph; a song."
      }
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