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    "text": "Jesus, who bought us with his blood,",
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    "text": "And makes our souls his care,",
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    "text": "Was known of old as Isr’el’s God,",
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    "text": "And answered Jabez’ prayer.",
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    "text": "Jabez, a child of grief! the name",
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    "text": "Befits poor sinners well;",
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    "text": "For Jesus bore the cross and shame,",
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    "text": "Teach us, Lord, like him to plea",
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    "text": "For mercies from above;",
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    "text": "O come, and bless our souls indeed,",
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    "text": "The gospel’s promised land is wide,",
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    "text": "We fain would enter in:",
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    "text": "But we are press’d on every side",
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    "text": "Arise, O Lord, enlarge our coast,",
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    "text": "That Satan may no longer boast",
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    "text": "He can thy work control.",
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    "text": "Oh! may thy hand be with us still.",
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    "text": "Our guide and guardian be,",
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    "text": "Help us on thee to cast our care,",
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    "text": "And on thy word to rest;",
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    "text": "That Isr’el’s God, who heareth pray’r",
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