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    "text": "Hark, my soul! it is the Lord;",
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    "text": "’Tis thy Saviour, hear his word;",
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   {
    "text": "Jesus speaks, and speaks to thee:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Say, poor sinner, lov’st thou me?",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“I deliver’d thee when bound,",
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   {
    "text": "And, when bleeding, heal’d thy wound⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Sought thee wand’ring, set thee right,",
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    "text": "Turn’d thy darkness into light.",
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    "text": "“Can a woman’s tender care",
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    "text": "Cease towards the child she bare?",
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   {
    "text": "Yes, she may forgetful be,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet will I remember thee.",
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    "text": "“Mine is an unchanging love,",
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    "text": "Higher than the heights above,",
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    "text": "Deeper than the depths beneath,",
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    "text": "Free and faithful, strong as death.",
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   {
    "text": "“Thou shalt see my glory soon,",
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   {
    "text": "When the work of grace is done⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Partner of my throne shalt be,",
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   {
    "text": "Say, poor sinner, lov’st thou me?”",
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    "text": "Lord, it is my chief complaint,",
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    "text": "That my love is weak and faint;",
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   {
    "text": "Yet I love thee and adore,",
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   {
    "text": "Oh for grace to love thee more?",
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