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Ode 8
Note the sudden transition from the person of the Psalmist to the person of the Lord (v. 10). This is like the canonical Psalter in style.
1Open ye, open ye your hearts to the exultation of the Lord:
2And let your love be multiplied from the heart and even to the lips,
3To bring forth fruit to the Lord [fruit], holy [fruit], and to talk with watchfulness in His light.
4Rise up, and stand erect, ye who sometime were brought low:
5Tell forth ye who were in silence, that your mouth hath been opened.
6Ye, therefore, that were despised, be henceforth lifted up, because your righteousness hath been exalted.
7For the right hand of the Lord is with you: and He is your helper:
8And peace was prepared for you, before ever your war was.
9Hear the word of truth, and receive the knowledge of the Most High.
10Your flesh has not known what I am saying to you neither have your hearts known what I am showing to you.
11Keep my secret, ye who are kept by it:
12Keep my faith, ye who are kept by it.
13And understand my knowledge, ye who know me in truth.
14Love me with affection, ye who love:
15For I do not turn away my face from them that are mine;
16For I know them, and before they came into being I took knowledge of them, and on their faces I set my seal:
17I fashioned their members: my own breasts I prepared for them, that they might drink my holy milk and live thereby.
18I took pleasure in them and am not ashamed of them:
19For my workmanship are they and the strength of my thoughts:
20Who then shall rise up against my handiwork, or who is there that is not subject to them?
21I willed and fashioned mind and heart: and they are mine, and by my own right hand I set my elect ones:
22And my righteousness goeth before them and they shall not be deprived of my name, for it is with them.
23Ask, and abound and abide in the love of the Lord,
24And yet beloved ones in the Beloved: those who are kept, in Him that liveth:
25And they that are saved in Him that was saved;
26And ye shall be found incorrupt in all ages to the name of your Father. Hallelujah.