{"reader_html":"<h1 class=\"chapter-heading\">Psalms<span class=\"chapter-label\">Chapter 138<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"1\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,1,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">1<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"2\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,2,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">2<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"3\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,3,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">3<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"4\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,4,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">4<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"5\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,5,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">5<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"6\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,6,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">6<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"7\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,7,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">7<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"8\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,8,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">8<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"9\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,9,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">9<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"10\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,10,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">10<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"11\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,11,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">11<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"12\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,12,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">12<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light as day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"13\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,13,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">13<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother&#039;s womb.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"14\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,14,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">14<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"15\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,15,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">15<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"16\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,16,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">16<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"17\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,17,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">17<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"18\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,18,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">18<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and am still with thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"19\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,19,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">19<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"20\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,20,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">20<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"21\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,21,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">21<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"22\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,22,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">22<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"23\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,23,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">23<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"24\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,138,24,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">24<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And see if there be in me the way of 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