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    "text": "Spit in my face, you Jews, and pierce my side,",
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    "text": "For I have sinn’d, and sinn’d, and only He,",
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    "text": "But by my death can not be satisfied",
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    "text": "My sins, which pass the Jews’ impiety.",
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    "text": "They kill’d once an inglorious man, but I",
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    "text": "Crucify him daily, being now glorified.",
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    "text": "O let me then His strange love still admire;",
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    "text": "Kings pardon, but He bore our punishment;",
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    "text": "And Jacob came clothed in vile harsh attire,",
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    "text": "God clothed Himself in vile man’s flesh, that so",
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