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Contains JSON data on the Trinity Hymnal
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{
"title": "We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing",
"author": "",
"tune": "Kremser",
"number": "286",
"lyrics": "We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing;\nHe chastens and hastens his will to make known;\nThe wicked oppressing now cease from distressing:\nSing praises to his Name; he forgets not his own.\n\nBeside us to guide us, our God with us joining,\nOrdaining, maintaining his kingdom divine;\nSo from the beginning the fight we were winning:\nThou, Lord, wast at our side: all glory be thine!\n\nWe all do extol thee, thou Leader triumphant,\nAnd pray that thou still our Defender wilt be.\nLet thy congregation escape tribulation:\nThy Name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!",
"first_line": "We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing;"
}