Server Won't Start

Recently my server shut down unexpectedly. Now, whenever trying to start the server I get the following error:
Console : Failed to start the minecraft server
Console : net.minecraft.util.com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: net.minecraft.util.com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Unterminated string at line 1 column 8193
Console : at net.minecraft.util.com.google.gson.internal.Streams.parse(Streams.java:56) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.1-10-g8688bd4-b3092jnks]
Console : at net.minecraft.util.com.google.gson.TreeTypeAdapter.read(TreeTypeAdapter.java:54) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.1-10-g8688bd4-b3092jnks]
Console : at net.minecraft.util.com.google.gson.internal.bind.TypeAdapterRuntimeTypeWrapper.read(TypeAdapterRuntimeTypeWrapper.java:40) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.1-10-g8688bd4-b3092jnks]
Console : at net.minecraft.util.com.google.gson.internal.bind.CollectionTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(CollectionTypeAdapterFactory.java:81) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.1-10-g8688bd4-b3092jnks]
Console : at net.minecraft.util.com.google.gson.internal.bind.CollectionTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(CollectionTypeAdapterFactory.java:60) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.1-10-g8688bd4-b3092jnks]
Console : at net.minecraft.util.com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:803) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.1-10-g8688bd4-b3092jnks]
Notice : Minecraft server has stopped running.