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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "To David himself, understanding. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.",
      "citation": "Psalms 31:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.",
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.",
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.",
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.",
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Thou art my refuge from the trouble which hath encompassed me: my joy, deliver me from them that surround me.",
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "I will give thee understanding, and I will instruct thee in this way, in which thou shalt go: I will fix my eyes upon thee.",
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no understanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not near unto thee.",
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass him that hopeth in the Lord.",
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye right of heart.",
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