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    "content": "Ecclesiasticus, Chapter 48 — 28 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "And Elias the prophet stood up, as a fire, and his word burnt like a torch.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "He brought a famine upon them, and they that provoked him in their envy, were reduced to a small number, for they could not endure the commandments of the Lord.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and he brought down fire from heaven thrice.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Thus was Elias magnified in his wondrous works. And who can glory like to thee?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Who raisedst up a dead man from below, from the lot of death, by the word of the Lord God.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Who broughtest down kings to destruction, and brokest easily their power in pieces, and the glorious from their bed.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Who heardest judgment in Sina, and in Horeb the judgments of vengeance.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Who anointedst kings to penance, and madest prophets successors after thee.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Who art registered in the judgments of times to appease the wrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured with thy friendship.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "For we live only in our life, but after death our name shall not be such.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Elias was indeed covered with the whirlwind, and his spirit was filled up in Eliseus: in his days he feared not the prince, and no man was more powerful than he.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "No word could overcome him, and after death his body prophesied.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "In his life he did great wonders, and in death he wrought miracles.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "For all this the people repented not, neither did they depart from their sins till they were cast out of their land, and were scattered through all the earth.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "And there was left but a small people, and a prince in the house of David.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Some of these did that which pleased God: but others committed many sins.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "Ezechias fortified his city, and brought in water into the midst thereof, and he digged a rock with iron, and made a well for water.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "In his days Sennacherib came up, and sent Rabsaces, and lifted up his hand against them, and he stretched out his hand against Sion, and became proud through his power.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "Then their hearts and hands trembled, and they were in pain as women in travail.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "And they called upon the Lord who is merciful, and spreading their hands, they lifted them up to heaven: and the holy Lord God quickly heard their voice.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "He was not mindful of their sins, neither did he deliver them up to their enemies, but he purified them by the hand of Isaias, the holy prophet.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "He overthrew the army of the Assyrians, and the angel of the Lord destroyed them.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "For Ezechias did that which pleased God, and walked valiantly in the way of David his father, which Isaias, the great prophet, and faithful in the sight of God, had commanded him.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "In his days the sun wen backward, and he lengthened the king's life.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "With a great spirit he saw the things that are to come to pass at last, and comforted the mourners in Sion.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "He showed what should come to pass for ever, and secret things before they came.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 48:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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