My first try. As usual comments etc appreciated.
Assuming saved as japh.pl

Usage: japh.pl
or japh "string" "another STRING" ...
where parameters should contain ('A'-'Z','a'-'z' or ' ')
e.g. perl japh.pl "we apologise for" "any inconvenience"

#!/usr/bin/perl

my($o)=('999      120420      122420422      422      122
494949333491    4994744941    20420120420    522      333
      494      494      494   091      091   022      999
      424      425499494429   42949342494    994945949949
440   449      442149442190   994949409      149498997990
 999  949      442      102   242            142      249
  902449       494      901   949            043      349
  449402       149      902   849            022      694
  
9021979474190949220');$o=~s/\s+//gs;$o=~y!0-9!\\/\-_|<>VX !;
for$ii(($#ARGV>=0)?@ARGV:('*534@!./4(%2','0%2,@(!#+%2')){my(
$m,$b,$t)=("\n","\n","\n\n");for(split//,$ii){my$d=(ord($_)&
31)*3;$t.=substr($o,$d,3).chr(32);$m.=substr($o,$d+81,3).chr
(32);$b.=substr($o,$d+162,3).chr(hex(20));}print"$t$m$b\n";}
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