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 "title": "Jehovah-Shalem⁠—The Lord Send Peace",
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    "text": "Jesus, whose blood so freely stream’d",
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   {
    "text": "To satisfy the law’s demand,",
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    "text": "By thee from guilt and wrath redeem’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Before the Father’s face I stand.",
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    "text": "To reconcile offending man,",
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    "text": "Made Justice drop her angry rod;",
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   {
    "text": "What creature could have form’d the plan,",
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    "text": "Or who fulfill it but a God?",
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    "text": "No drop remains of all the curse",
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    "text": "For wretches who deserved the whole;",
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    "text": "No arrows dipp’d in wrath to pierce",
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    "text": "The guilty but returning soul.",
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    "text": "Peace by such means, so dearly bought,",
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    "text": "What rebel could have hoped to see?",
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    "text": "Peace, by his injured Sovereign wrought,",
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    "text": "His Sovereign fasten’d to the tree!",
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    "text": "Now, Lord, thy feeble worm prepare;",
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    "text": "For strife with earth and hell begins;",
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    "text": "Confirm and gird me for the war;",
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    "text": "They hate the soul that hates his sins.",
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    "text": "Let them in horrid league agree!",
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    "text": "They may assault, they may distress,",
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   {
    "text": "But cannot quench thy love to me,",
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    "text": "Nor rob me of the Lord my peace.",
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