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    "text": "When Isr’el, by divine command,",
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    "text": "The pathless desert trod,",
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    "text": "They found, though ’twas a barren land,",
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    "text": "A cloudy pillar mark’d their road,",
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    "text": "And screen’d them from the heat;",
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    "text": "From the hard rocks the water flow’d,",
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    "text": "Like them, we have a rest in view,",
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    "text": "Secure from adverse pow’rs;",
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    "text": "Like them, we pass a desert too,",
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    "text": "But Isr’el’s God is ours.",
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    "text": "Yes, in this barren wilderness",
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    "text": "His word a light before us spreads,",
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    "text": "By which our path we see;",
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    "text": "Jesus, the bread of life, is giv’n",
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    "text": "To be our daily food;",
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    "text": "We drink a wondrous stream from heav’n,",
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    "text": "Lord, ’tis enough, I ask no more;",
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    "text": "These blessings are divine;",
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    "text": "I envy not the worldling’s store",
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    "text": "If Christ and heav’n are mine.",
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