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Judges 16:28

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called: 2 Chronicles 20:12; Psalms 50:15, Psalms 91:15, Psalms 116:4; Lamentations 3:31-32; Hebrews 11:32

remember me: Psalms 74:18-23; Jonah 2:1-2, Jonah 2:7; Jeremiah 15:15

that I may: Judges 5:31; Psalms 58:10-11, Psalms 143:12; 2 Timothy 4:14; Revelation 6:10

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