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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.",
      "citation": "Psalms 40:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.",
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.",
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.",
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?",
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.",
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.",
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?",
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.",
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them.",
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.",
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever.",
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.",
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