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All of you set free by God, tell the world! Tell how he freed you from oppression,
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Then rounded you up from all over the place, from the four winds, from the seven seas.
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Some of you wandered for years in the desert, looking but not finding a good place to live,
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Half-starved and parched with thirst, staggering and stumbling, on the brink of exhaustion.
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Then, in your desperate condition, you called out to God. He got you out in the nick of time;
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