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{ "title": "Before Jehovah's awful throne", "author": "", "tune": "Park Street", "number": "62", "lyrics": "Before Jehovah's awful throne,\nYe nations, bow with sacred joy:\nKnow that the Lord is God alone,\nHe can create, and he destroy.\n\nHis sovereign pow'r, without our aid,\nMade us of dust, and formed us men;\nAnd when like wandering sheep we strayed,\nHe brought us to his fold again.\n\nWe are his people, we his care,\nOur souls, and all our mortal frame;\nWhat lasting honors shall we rear,\nAlmighty Maker, to my name?\n\nWe'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,\nHigh as the heavens our voices raise;\nAnd earth, with her ten thousand tongues,\nShall fill thy courts with sounding praise.\n\nWide as the world is thy command,\nVast as eternity thy love;\nFirm as a rock thy truth must stand,\nWhen rolling years shall cease to move.", "first_line": "Before Jehovah's awful throne," }