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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when I cry to thee.",
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.",
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.",
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:",
      "citation": "Psalms 140:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They shall hear my words, for they have prevailed:",
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.",
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.",
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.",
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.",
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