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 "title": "Jehovah-Nissi⁠—The Lord My Banner",
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 "poet": "William Cowper",
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 "container": "Book I On Select Texts of Scripture",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "By whom was David taught",
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   {
    "text": "To aim the dreadful blow,",
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    "text": "When he Goliath fought,",
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   {
    "text": "And laid the Gittite low?",
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   {
    "text": "No sword nor spear the stripling took,",
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   {
    "text": "But chose a peeble from the brook.",
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    "text": "’Twas Israel’s God and King",
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    "text": "Who sent him to the fight⁠—",
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    "text": "Who gave him strength to sling,",
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    "text": "And skill to aim aright.",
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    "text": "Ye feeble saints, your strength endures,",
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   {
    "text": "Because young David’s God is yours.",
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    "text": "Who order’d Gideon forth",
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    "text": "To storm th’ invader’s camp,",
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    "text": "With arms of little worth⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "A pitcher and a lamp?",
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   {
    "text": "The trumpets made his coming known,",
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   {
    "text": "And all the host was overthrown.",
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    "text": "Oh! I have seen the day",
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    "text": "When, with a single word,",
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    "text": "God helping me to say,",
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    "text": "My trust is in the Lord,",
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    "text": "My soul has quell’d a thousand foes,",
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    "text": "But unbelief, self-will,",
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    "text": "Self-righteousness, and pride,",
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    "text": "How often do they steal",
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    "text": "My weapon from my side!",
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    "text": "Yet David’s Lord and Gideon’s friend",
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    "text": "Will help his servant to the end.",
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