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  "citation": "Psalms 108 (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Unto the end, a psalm for David.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.",
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "because he remembered not to shew mercy,",
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 21,
      "text": "But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 22,
      "text": "For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "Help me, O Lord my God; save me; according to thy mercy.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 27,
      "text": "And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.",
      "citation": "Psalms 108:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors.",
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