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Ode 7
A wonderfully, simple and joyful psalm on the Incarnation.
1As the impulse of anger against evil, so is the impulse of joy over what is lovely, and brings in of its fruits without restraint:
2My joy is the Lord and my impulse is toward Him: this path of mine is excellent:
3For I have a helper, the Lord.
4He hath caused me to know Himself, without grudging, by His simplicity: His kindness has humbled His greatness.
5He became like me, in order that I might receive Him:
6He was reckoned like myself in order that I might put Him on;
7And I trembled not when I saw Him: because He was gracious to me:
8Like my nature He became that I might learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him:
9The Father of knowledge is the word of knowledge:
10He who created wisdom is wiser than His works:
11And He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being:
12Wherefore He pitied me in His abundant grace: and granted me to ask from Him and to receive from His sacrifice:
13Because He it is that is incorrupt, the fulness of the ages and the Father of them.
14He hath given Him to be seen of them that are His, in order that they may recognize Him that made them: and that they might not suppose that they came of themselves:
15For knowledge He hath appointed as its way, He hath widened it and extended it; and brought to all perfection;
16And set over it the traces of His light, and I walked therein from the beginning even to the end.
17For by Him it was wrought, and He was resting in the Son, and for its salvation He will take hold of everything;
18And the Most High shall be known in His Saints, to announce to those that have songs of the coming of the Lord;
19That they may go forth to meet Him, and may sing to Him with joy and with the harp of many tones:
20The seers shall come before Him and they shall be seen before Him,
21And they shall praise the Lord for His love: because He is near and beholdeth.
22And hatred shall be taken from the earth, and along with jealousy it shall be drowned:
23For ignorance hath been destroyed, because the knowledge of the Lord hath arrived.
24They who make songs shall sing the grace of the Lord Most High;
25And they shall bring their songs, and their heart shall be like the day: and like the excellent beauty of the Lord their pleasant song:
26And there shall neither be anything that breathes without knowledge, nor any that is dumb:
27For He hath given a mouth to His creation, to open the voice of the mouth towards Him, to praise Him:
28Confess ye His power, and show forth His grace. Hallelujah.