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    "text": "Pensive, doubting, fearful heart,",
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   {
    "text": "Hear what Christ the Saviour says;",
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    "text": "Every word should joy impart,",
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    "text": "Change thy mourning into praise:",
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    "text": "Yes, he speaks, and speaks to thee,",
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   {
    "text": "May he help thee to believe!",
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    "text": "Then thou presently wilt see,",
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    "text": "Thou hast little cause to grieve.",
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    "text": "“Fear thou not, nor be ashamed,",
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   {
    "text": "All thy sorrows soon shall end:",
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    "text": "I who heaven and earth have framed",
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    "text": "Am thy Husband and thy Friend:",
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    "text": "I the High and Holy One,",
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   {
    "text": "Isr’el’s God by all adored,",
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    "text": "As thy Saviour will be known,",
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    "text": "Thy Redeemer and thy Lord.",
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    "text": "For a moment I withdrew,",
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    "text": "And thy heart was fill’d with pain;",
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    "text": "But my mercies I’ll renew⁠—",
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    "text": "Thou shalt soon rejoice again:",
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    "text": "Though I seem to hide my face,",
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    "text": "Yery soon my wrath shall cease;",
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    "text": "’Tis but for a moment’s space,",
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    "text": "Ending in eternal peace.",
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    "text": "When my peaceful bow appears,",
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    "text": "Painted on the wat’ry cloud;",
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    "text": "’Tis to dissipate thy fears,",
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   {
    "text": "Lest the earth should be o’erflow’d:",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis an emblem too of grace,",
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    "text": "Of my cov’nant love a sign;",
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    "text": "Though the mountains leave their place,",
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    "text": "Thou shalt be for ever mine.",
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    "text": "Though afflicted, tempest-toss’d.",
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    "text": "Comfortless awhile thou art,",
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   {
    "text": "Do not think thou canst be lost,",
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    "text": "Thou art graven on my heart:",
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   {
    "text": "All thy wastes I will repair,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou shalt be rebuilt anew;",
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   {
    "text": "And in thee it shall appear",
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   {
    "text": "What a God of love can do.",
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