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For the Lord is a God who crushes warfare
    and establishes his camp in the midst of his people;
    he delivered me from the hands of my oppressors.
“The Assyrian descended from the mountains of the north,
    with myriads of his warriors he came.
Their troops choked the valleys
    and their cavalry covered the hills.
He threatened to set my country aflame
    and put my young men to the sword,
dash my infants to the ground,
    seize my children as booty,
    and carry off my virgins as spoil.

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