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{
"title": "O dearest Jesus, what law hast thou broken",
"author": "",
"tune": "Herzliebster Jesu",
"number": "181",
"lyrics": "O dearest Jesus, what law hast thou broken\nThat such sharp sentence should on thee be spoken?\nOf what great crime hast thou to make confession,\nWhat dark transgression?\n\nThey crown thy head with thorns, they smite, they scourge thee;\nWith cruel mockings to the cross they urge thee;\nThey give thee gall to drink, they still decry thee;\nThey crucify thee.\n\nWhence come these sorrows, whence this mortal anguish?\nIt is my sins for which thou, Lord, must languish;\nYea, all the wrath, the woe, thou dost inherit,\nThis I do merit.\n\nWhat punishment so strange is suffered yonder!\nThe Shepherd dies for sheep that loved to wander;\nThe master pays the debt his servants owe him,\nWho would not know him.\n\nThe sinless Son of God must die in sadness;\nThe sinful child of man may live in gladness;\nMan forfeited his life and is acquitted,\nGod is committed.",
"first_line": "O dearest Jesus, what law hast thou broken"
}