{ "authors": [ "John Newton" ], "title": "Amazing Grace", "verse_order_list": [], "verses": [ [ "Amazing grace! How sweet the sound\n", "v1" ], [ "That saved a wretch like me!\n", "v2" ], [ "I once was lost, but now am found;\n", "v3" ], [ "Was blind, but now I see.\n", "v4" ], [ "'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,\n", "v5" ], [ "And grace my fears relieved;\n", "v6" ], [ "How precious did that grace appear\n", "v7" ], [ "The hour I first believed.\n", "v8" ], [ "Through many dangers, toils and snares,\n", "v9" ], [ "I have already come;\n", "v10" ], [ "'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,\n", "v11" ], [ "And grace will lead me home.\n", "v12" ], [ "The Lord has promised good to me,\n", "v13" ], [ "His Word my hope secures;\n", "v14" ], [ "He will my Shield and Portion be,\n", "v15" ], [ "As long as life endures.\n", "v16" ], [ "Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,\n", "v17" ], [ "And mortal life shall cease,\n", "v18" ], [ "I shall possess, within the veil,\n", "v19" ], [ "A life of joy and peace.\n", "v20" ], [ "The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,\n", "v21" ], [ "The sun forbear to shine;\n", "v22" ], [ "But God, Who called me here below,\n", "v23" ], [ "Shall be forever mine.\n", "v24" ], [ "When we've been there ten thousand years,\n", "v25" ], [ "Bright shining as the sun,\n", "v26" ], [ "We've no less days to sing God's praise\n", "v27" ], [ "Than when we'd first begun.\n", "v28" ] ] }