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