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    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 86
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    "n": 86,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-86:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.1",
        "text": "Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me; For I am poor and needy."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-86:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.2",
        "text": "Preserve my soul; for I am godly: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-86:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.3",
        "text": "Be merciful unto me, O Lord; For unto thee do I cry all the day long."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-86:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.4",
        "text": "Rejoice the soul of thy servant; For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-86:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.5",
        "text": "For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-86:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.6",
        "text": "Give ear, O Jehovah, unto my prayer; And hearken unto the voice of my supplications."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-86:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.7",
        "text": "In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee; For thou wilt answer me."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-86:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.8",
        "text": "There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord; Neither [are there any works] like unto thy works."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-86:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.9",
        "text": "All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship       before thee, O Lord; And they shall glorify thy name."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-86:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.10",
        "text": "For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: Thou art God alone."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-86:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.11",
        "text": "Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth: Unite my heart to fear thy name."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-86:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.12",
        "text": "I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart; And I will glorify thy name for evermore."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-86:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.13",
        "text": "For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-86:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.14",
        "text": "O God, the proud are risen up against me, And a company of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set thee before them."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-86:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.15",
        "text": "But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-86:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.16",
        "text": "Oh turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; Give thy strength unto thy servant, And save the son of thy handmaid."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-86:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.86.17",
        "text": "Show me a token for good, That they who hate me may see it, and be put to shame, Because thou, Jehovah, hast helped me, and comforted me.           Psalm 87  A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song."
      }
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