1 My heart was lifted up in the love of the Most High and was enlarged: that I might praise Him for His name's sake. (ODE) 2 My members were strengthened that they might not fall from His strength. (ODE) 3 Sicknesses removed from my body, and it stood to the Lord by His will. For His kingdom is true. (ODE) 4 O Lord, for the sake of them that are deficient do not remove thy word from me! (ODE) 5 Neither for the sake of their works do thou restrain from me thy perfection! (ODE) 6 Let not the luminary be conquered by the darkness; nor let truth flee away from falsehood. (ODE) 7 Thou wilt appoint me to victory; our Salvation is thy right hand. And thou wilt receive men from all quarters. (ODE) 8 And thou wilt preserve whosoever is held in evils: (ODE) 9 Thou art my God. Falsehood and death are not in thy mouth: (ODE) 10 For thy will is perfection; and vanity thou knowest not, (ODE) 11 Nor does it know thee. (ODE) 12 And error thou knowest not, (ODE) 13 Neither does it know thee. (ODE) 14 And ignorance appeared like a blind man; and like the foam of the sea, (ODE) 15 And they supposed of that vain thing that it was something great; (ODE) 16 And they too came in likeness of it and became vain; and those have understood who have known and meditated; (ODE) 17 And they have not been corrupt in their imagination; for such were in the mind of the Lord; (ODE) 18 And they mocked at them that were walking in error; (ODE) 19 And they spake truth from the inspiration which the Most High breathed into them; Praise and great comeliness to His name Hallelujah. (ODE)
Odes of Solomon 18:1–19
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