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119.

[Witness of my extreme distress]

I will bring you out from under the burdens, &c. —vi. 6.

Witness of my extreme distress,
How long shall I these burdens feel,
Egyptian burdens, that depress,
And sink my abject soul to hell!
If Thou Thy promised help defer,
And suffer me in sin to' expire,
I must a hotter furnace bear,
A furnace of eternal fire.