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 "title": "The Lord Will Provide",
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 "poet": "John Newton",
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    "text": "Though troubles assail,",
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    "text": "And dangers affright,",
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    "text": "Though friends should all fail,",
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    "text": "And foes all unite;",
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    "text": "Yet one thing secures us,",
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    "text": "Whatever betide,",
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    "text": "The Scripture assures us",
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    "text": "The Lord will provide.",
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    "text": "The birds without barn",
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    "text": "Or storehouse are fed;",
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    "text": "From them let us learn",
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    "text": "To trust for our bread:",
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    "text": "His saints what is fitting",
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    "text": "Shall ne’er be denied,",
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    "text": "So long as ’tis written,",
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    "text": "The Lord Will provide.",
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    "text": "We may, like the ships,",
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    "text": "By tempests be tost",
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    "text": "On perilous deeps,",
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    "text": "But cannot be lost:",
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    "text": "Though Satan enrages",
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    "text": "The wind and the tide,",
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    "text": "The promise engages",
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    "text": "The Lord will provide.",
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    "text": "His call we obey,",
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    "text": "Like Abr’am of old,",
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    "text": "Not knowing our way,",
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    "text": "But faith makes us bold:",
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    "text": "For though we are strangers,",
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    "text": "We have a good guide,",
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    "text": "And trust, in all dangers,",
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    "text": "The Lord will provide.",
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    "text": "When Satan appears,",
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    "text": "To stop up our path",
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    "text": "And fill us with fears,",
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    "text": "We triumph by faith;",
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    "text": "He cannot take from us,",
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    "text": "Though oft he has tried,",
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    "text": "This heart-cheering promise,",
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    "text": "The Lord will provide.",
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    "text": "He tells us we’re weak,",
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    "text": "Our hope is in vain,",
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    "text": "The good that we seek",
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    "text": "We ne’er shall obtain;",
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    "text": "But when such suggestions",
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    "text": "Our spirits have plied,",
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    "text": "This answers all questions,",
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    "text": "The Lord will provide.",
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    "text": "No strength of our own",
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    "text": "Or goodness we claim;",
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    "text": "Yet since we have known",
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   {
    "text": "The Saviour’s great name,",
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    "text": "In this our strong tower",
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    "text": "For safety we hide,",
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    "text": "The Lord is our power,",
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    "text": "The Lord will provide.",
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    "text": "When life sinks apace,",
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    "text": "And death is in view,",
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    "text": "This word of his grace",
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    "text": "Shall comfort us through:",
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    "text": "No fearing or doubting",
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   {
    "text": "With Christ on our side⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "We hope to die shouting,",
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    "text": "The Lord will provide.",
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