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    "content": "Psalms, Chapter 88 — 53 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Psalms 88 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded:",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt him.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:31 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 32,
      "text": "If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments:",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:32 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 33,
      "text": "I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with stripes.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:33 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 34,
      "text": "But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:34 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 35,
      "text": "Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:35 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 36,
      "text": "Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:36 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 37,
      "text": "His seed shall endure for ever.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:37 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 38,
      "text": "And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:38 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 39,
      "text": "But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with my anointed.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:39 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 40,
      "text": "Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:40 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 41,
      "text": "Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:41 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 42,
      "text": "All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:42 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 43,
      "text": "Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:43 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 44,
      "text": "Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not assisted him in battle.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:44 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 45,
      "text": "Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his throne down to the ground.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:45 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 46,
      "text": "Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:46 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 47,
      "text": "How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:47 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 48,
      "text": "Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:48 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 49,
      "text": "Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:49 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 50,
      "text": "Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth?",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:50 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 51,
      "text": "Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations:",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:51 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 52,
      "text": "Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:52 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 53,
      "text": "Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it.",
      "citation": "Psalms 88:53 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
  ]
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