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 "title": "Isaiah 63:1⁠–⁠8",
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    "text": "Say, heav’nly muse, what king or mighty God,",
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   {
    "text": "That moves sublime from Idumea’s road?",
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   {
    "text": "In Bosrah’s dies, with martial glories join’d,",
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   {
    "text": "His purple vesture waves upon the wind.",
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   {
    "text": "Why thus enrob’d delights he to appear",
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   {
    "text": "In the dread image of the Pow’r of war?",
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   {
    "text": "Compres’d in wrath the swelling wine-press groan’d,",
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   {
    "text": "It bled, and pour’d the gushing purple round.",
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   {
    "text": "“Mine was the act,” th’ Almighty Saviour said,",
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   {
    "text": "And shook the dazzling glories of his head,",
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   {
    "text": "“When all forsook I trod the press alone,",
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   {
    "text": "“And conquer’d by omnipotence my own;",
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    "text": "“For man’s release sustain’d the pond’rous load,",
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    "text": "“For man the wrath of an immortal God:",
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   {
    "text": "“To execute th’ Eternal’s dread command",
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   {
    "text": "“My soul I sacrific’d with willing hand;",
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   {
    "text": "“Sinless I stood before the avenging frown,",
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   {
    "text": "“Atoning thus for vices not my own.”",
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    "text": "His eye the ample field of battle round",
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   {
    "text": "Survey’d, but no created succours found;",
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   {
    "text": "His own omnipotence sustain’d the fight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His vengeance sunk the haughty foes in night;",
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   {
    "text": "Beneath his feet the prostrate troops were spread,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And round him lay the dying, and the dead.",
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   {
    "text": "Great God, what light’ning flashes from thine eyes?",
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    "text": "What pow’r withstands if thou indignant rise?",
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    "text": "Against thy Zion though her foes may rage,",
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   {
    "text": "And all their cunning, all their strength engage,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet she serenely on thy bosom lies,",
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    "text": "Smiles at their arts, and all their force defies.",
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