1 I stretched out my hands and approached my Lord: (ODE) 2 For the stretching of my hands is His sign: (ODE) 3 My expansion is the outspread tree which was set up on the way of the Righteous One. (ODE)
Odes of Solomon 42:1–3
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Odes of Solomon 27:1–3
1 I stretched out my hands and sanctified my Lord: (ODE) 2 For the extension of my hands is His sign: (ODE) 3 And my expansion is the upright tree [or cross]. (ODE)
Odes of Solomon 37:1–2
1 I stretched out my hands to my Lord: and to the Most I High I raised my voice: (ODE) 2 And I spake with the lips of my heart; and He heard me, when my voice reached I Him: (ODE)
Job 11:12–14
12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man! 13 As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him, 14 if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
Odes of Solomon 21:4–6
4 And increasingly helpful to me was the thought of the Lord, and His fellowship in incorruption: (ODE) 5 And I was lifted up in His light; and I served before Him, (ODE) 6 And I became near to Him, praising and confessing Him; (ODE)
Apocryphon of John 20:7–9
7 He wiped away bitter tears off himself, and he said: ‘Who is calling my name, and from where has this hope come to me, while I am in the fetters of the prison?’ (APJ) 8 I also said: ‘I am the Providence of the pure light. (APJ) 9 I am the thought of the virginal Spirit who lif… (APJ)
Odes of Solomon 36:5–7
5 For according to the greatness of the Most High, so He made me: and like His own newness He renewed me; and He anointed me from His own perfection: (ODE) 6 And I became one of His Neighbours; and my mouth was opened, like a cloud of dew, (ODE) 7 And my heart poured out as it w… (ODE)
Odes of Solomon 35:6–8
6 And I was carried like a child by his mother: and He gave me milk, the dew of the Lord: (ODE) 7 And I grew great by His bounty, and rested in His perfection, (ODE) 8 And I spread out my hands in the lifting up of my soul: and I was made right with the Most High, and I was rede… (ODE)
Odes of Solomon 29:6–8
6 For I believed in the Lord's Messiah: and it appeared to me that He is the Lord; (ODE) 7 And He showed him His sign: and He led me by His light, and gave me the rod of His power; (ODE) 8 That I might subdue the imaginations of the peoples; and the power of the men of might to… (ODE)
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