Ode 15

The Odes of Solomon

Ode 17


Ode 16

The beauty of God's creation.

1As the work of the husbandman is the ploughshare: and the work of the steersman is the guidance of the ship:

2So also my work is the Psalm of the Lord: my craft and my occupation are in His praises:

3Because His love bath nourished my heart, and even to my lips His fruits He poured out.

4For my love is the Lord, and therefore I will sing unto Him:

5For I am made strong in His praise, and I have faith in Him.

6I will open my mouth and His spirit will utter in me the glory of the Lord and His beauty; the work of His hands and the operation of His fingers:

7The multitude of His mercies and the strength of His word.

8For the word of the Lord searches out all things, both the invisible and that which reveals His thought;

9For the eye sees His works, and the ear hears His thought;

10He spread out the earth and He settled the waters in the sea:

11He measured the heavens and fixed the stars: and He established the creation and set it up:

12And He rested from His works:

13And created things run in their courses, and do their works:

14And they know not how to stand and be idle; and His heavenly hosts are subject to His word.

15The treasure-chamber of the light is the sun, and the treasury of the darkness is the night:

16And He made the sun for the day that it may be bright, but night brings darkness over the face of the land;

17And their alternations one to the other speak the beauty of God:

18And there is nothing that is without the Lord; for He was before any thing came into being:

19And the worlds were made by His word, and by the thought of His heart. Glory and honour to His name. Hallelujah.


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