{
  "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;"
}