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    "text": "Oppress’d with unbelief and sin,",
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    "text": "Fightings without, and fears within,",
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    "text": "While earth and hell, with force combined.",
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    "text": "Assault and terrify my mind;",
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    "text": "What strength have I against such foes,",
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    "text": "Such hosts and legions to oppose?",
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    "text": "Alas! I tremble, faint, and fall;",
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    "text": "Lord, save me, or I give up all.",
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    "text": "Thus sorely press’d, I sought the Lord,",
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    "text": "To give me some sweet cheering word;",
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    "text": "Again I sought, and yet again;",
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    "text": "Oh! ’twas a cheering word indeed!",
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    "text": "Exactly suited to my need;",
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    "text": "“Sufficient for thee is my grace,",
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    "text": "Thy weakness my great power displays.”",
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    "text": "Now I despond and mourn no more,",
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    "text": "I welcome all I fear’d before:",
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    "text": "Though weak, I’m strong, though troubled, blest,",
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    "text": "For Christ’s own power shall on me rest.",
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    "text": "My grace would soon exhausted be,",
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    "text": "But his is boundless as the sea;",
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    "text": "Then let me boast with holy Paul,",
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    "text": "That I am nothing, Christ is all.",
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