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 "title": "Jehovah-Jireh⁠—The Lord Will Provide",
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  "year": 1779,
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-15"
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    "text": "The saints should never be dismay’d,",
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    "text": "Nor sink in hopeless fear;",
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   {
    "text": "For, when they least expect his aid,",
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   {
    "text": "The Saviour will appear.",
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   {
    "text": "This Abra’m found: he raised the knife,",
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   {
    "text": "God saw, and said, “Forbear!",
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   {
    "text": "Yon ram shall yield his meaner life⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Behold the victim there.”",
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    "text": "Once David seem’d Saul’s certain prey;",
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    "text": "But hark! the foe’s at hand;",
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   {
    "text": "Saul turns his arms another way,",
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    "text": "To save th’ invaded land.",
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    "text": "When Jonah sunk beneath the wave",
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    "text": "He thought to rise no more;",
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    "text": "But God prepared a fish to save",
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    "text": "And bear him to the shore.",
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    "text": "Bless’d proofs of power and grace divine",
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    "text": "That meet us in his word!",
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    "text": "May every deep-felt care of mine",
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    "text": "Be trusted with the Lord!",
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    "text": "Wait for his seasonable aid,",
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    "text": "And though it tarry, wait:",
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    "text": "The promise may be long delay’d,",
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    "text": "But cannot come too late.",
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