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The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, a that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens— wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught.
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The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backward.
6
I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting.
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