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{ "title": "High in the heavens, eternal God", "author": "", "tune": "Alsace", "number": "52", "lyrics": "High in the heavens, eternal God,\n\nThy goodness in full glory shines;\n\nThy truth shall break through every cloud\n\nThat veils and darkens thy designs.\n\n\nFor ever firm thy justice stands,\n\nAs mountains their foundations keep;\n\nWise are the wonders of thy hands;\n\nThy judgments are a mighty deep.\n\n\nThy providence is kind and large,\n\nBoth man and beast thy bounty share;\n\nThe whole creation is thy charge,\n\nBut saints are thy peculiar care.\n\n\nMy God, how excellent thy grace,\n\nWhence all our hope and comfort spring!\n\nThe sons of Adam in distress\n\nFly to the shadow of thy wing.\n\n\nFrom the provisions of thy house\n\nWe shall be fed with sweet repast;\n\nThere mercy like a river flows,\n\nAnd brings salvation to our taste.\n\n\nLife, like a fountain, rich and free,\n\nSprings from the presence of my Lord;\n\nAnd in thy light our souls shall see\n\nThe glories promised in thy Word.", "first_line": "High in the heavens, eternal God," }