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    "text": "The word of Christ our Lord,",
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    "text": "With whom we have to do,",
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    "text": "Is sharper than a two-edged sword",
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    "text": "No heart can be conceal’d",
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    "text": "From his all-piercing eyes:",
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    "text": "Each thought and purpose stands reveal’d,",
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    "text": "Naked without disguise.",
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    "text": "He sees his people’s fears,",
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    "text": "Though feeble is their good,",
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    "text": "It has its kind regard;",
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    "text": "Yea, all they would do, if they could,",
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    "text": "Shall find a sure reward.",
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    "text": "He sees the wicked too,",
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    "text": "For all the evil deeds they do,",
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    "text": "Since all our secret ways",
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    "text": "Are mark’d and known by thee,",
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    "text": "Afford us, Lord, thy light of grace,",
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    "text": "That we ourselves may see.",
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