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    "text": "Hear what God the Lord hath spoken:",
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   {
    "text": "“O my people, faint and few,",
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    "text": "Comfortless, afflicted, broken,",
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   {
    "text": "Fair abodes I build for you;",
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   {
    "text": "Thorns of heart-felt tribulation",
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    "text": "Shall no more perplex your ways;",
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   {
    "text": "You shall name your walls Salvation,",
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    "text": "And your gates shall all be Praise.",
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    "text": "There, like streams that feed the garden,",
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   {
    "text": "Pleasures without end shall flow;",
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   {
    "text": "For the Lord, your faith rewarding,",
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   {
    "text": "All his bounty shall bestow:",
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    "text": "Still in undisturb’d possession",
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   {
    "text": "Peace and righteousness shall reign;",
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   {
    "text": "Never shall you feel oppression⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Hear the voice of war again.",
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    "text": "Ye no more your suns descending,",
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   {
    "text": "Waning moons no more shall see;",
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    "text": "But, your griefs for ever ending,",
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   {
    "text": "Find eternal noon in me:",
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   {
    "text": "God shall rise, and shining o’er you,",
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   {
    "text": "Change to day the gloom of night;",
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    "text": "He the Lord, shall be your glory,",
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    "text": "God your everlasting light.”",
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