How to loop through two files (one text file, one json file) simultaneously in Bash?

I am a bit struggling writing a bash script. So I got some output in few files, and I have to define a new variable. However I need to use 2 files, and one is a normal text file, the other one is a JSON one:

file.txt

abcd
fghi
jklm

file.json

{
   "test0": "000",
   "test1": "011",
   "test2": "022"
}
{
   "test0": "100",
   "test1": "111",
   "test2": "122"
}
{
   "test0": "200",
   "test1": "211",
   "test2": "222"
}

I need to define a new variable this way:

final='{"example":"$file.txt-output","tags":"$file.json-output"}'

I can’t find a way for the script to run each loop simultaneously, the file.txt output get send first.

I have tried a few ways just for testing, but still getting the same, eg.:

paste -- ~/file.txt ~/file.json | while read -r input1 input2
do
    echo "$input1 =  $input2"
done

Here is what I get:

"abcd" = {
"fghi" = "test0":
"jklm" = "test1":
} =
{ =
"test0": "100",
"test1": "111",
"test2": "122",
}

The "final" variable should look like that:

final='{"example":"abcd","tags":{ "test0": "000", "test1": "011", "test2": "022" }'
final='{"example":"fghi","tags":{ "test0": "100", "test1": "111", "test2": "122" }'
....

The JSON file looks like that, there is no "," and it’s not an array. Any help would be much appreciated!

>Solution :

jq -cs --rawfile texts file.txt '
  [($texts | split("\n")), .] # array with first all text lines, then all JSON 
  | transpose[]               # zip that array into (text, json) pairs
  | select(.[0] != "" and .[1] != null) # ignore if we do not have both items
  | {"example": .[0], "tags": .[1]}     # otherwise emit output
' <file.json

…emits as output…

{"example":"abcd","tags":{"test0":"000","test1":"1111","test2":"2222"}}
{"example":"fghi","tags":{"test0":"100","test1":"111","test2":"122"}}

As this is one line per item, a standard while IFS= read -r final; do loop will handle it properly.