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    "text": "Elijah’s example declares,",
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    "text": "Whatever distress may betide,",
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    "text": "The saints may commit all their cares",
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    "text": "To Him who will surely provide:",
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    "text": "When rain long withheld from the earth",
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    "text": "Occasion’d a famine of bread,",
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    "text": "The prophet, secured from the dearth,",
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    "text": "By ravens was constantly fed.",
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    "text": "More likely to rob than to feed",
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    "text": "Were ravens, who live upon prey;",
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    "text": "But when the Lord’s people have need,",
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    "text": "His goodness will find out a way.",
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    "text": "This instance to those may be strange",
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    "text": "Who know not how faith can prevail;",
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    "text": "But sooner all nature shall change",
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    "text": "Than one of God’s promises fail.",
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    "text": "Nor is it a singular case",
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    "text": "The wonder is often renew’d;",
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    "text": "And many can say to his praise,",
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    "text": "He sends them by ravens their food.",
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    "text": "Thus worldlings, though ravens indeed,",
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    "text": "Though greedy and selfish their mind,",
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    "text": "If God has a servant to feed,",
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    "text": "Against their own wills can be kind.",
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    "text": "Thus Satan, that raven unclean,",
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    "text": "Who croaks in the ears of the saints,",
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    "text": "Compell’d by a Power unseen,",
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    "text": "Administers oft to their wants:",
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    "text": "God teaches them how to find food",
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    "text": "From all the temptations they feel;",
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    "text": "This raven, who thirsts for my blood,",
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    "text": "Has help’d me to many a meal.",
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    "text": "How safe and how happy are they",
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    "text": "Who on the good Shepherd rely!",
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    "text": "He gives them out strength for their day,",
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    "text": "Their wants he will surely supply:",
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    "text": "He ravens and lions can tame⁠—",
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    "text": "All creatures obey his command;",
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    "text": "Then let me rejoice in his name,",
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    "text": "And leave all my cares in his hand.",
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