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    "text": "When Joshua, by God’s command,",
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    "text": "Invaded Canaan’s guilty land,",
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    "text": "Gibeon, unlike the nations round,",
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    "text": "Their stubborn neighbours who, enraged,",
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    "text": "By Joshua soon were overthrown,",
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    "text": "For Gibeon’s cause was now his own.",
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    "text": "He from whose arm they ruin fear’d",
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    "text": "Their leader and ally appear’d;",
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    "text": "An emblem of the Saviour’s grace",
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    "text": "To those who humbly seek his face.",
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    "text": "The men of Gibeon wore disguise,",
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    "text": "And gain’d their peace by framing lies;",
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    "text": "For Joshua had no power to spare,",
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    "text": "If he had known from whence they were.",
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    "text": "But Jesus invitations sends,",
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    "text": "Treating with rebels as his friends;",
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    "text": "And holds the promise forth in view",
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    "text": "To all who for his mercy sue.",
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    "text": "Too long his goodness I disdain’d,",
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    "text": "Yet went at last and peace obtain’d;",
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    "text": "But soon the noise of war I heard,",
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    "text": "Weak in myself, for help I cried,",
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    "text": "Lord, I am press’d on every side;",
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    "text": "The cause is thine, they fight with me,",
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    "text": "But every blow is aim’d at thee.",
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    "text": "With speed to my relief he came,",
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    "text": "And put my enemies to shame:",
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    "text": "Thus saved by grace, I live to sing",
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    "text": "The love and triumphs of my King.",
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