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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up.",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.",
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.",
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.",
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:",
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.",
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother's womb.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand, I rose up and am still with thee.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 21,
      "text": "Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 22,
      "text": "I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.",
      "citation": "Psalms 138:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 24,
      "text": "And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.",
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