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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.",
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.",
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.",
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Behold these are sinners; and yet, abounding in the world they have obtained riches.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 21,
      "text": "For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 22,
      "text": "And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.",
      "citation": "Psalms 72:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
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