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Plain text of Ode 18

1 My heart was lifted up in the love of the Most High and was enlarged: that I might praise Him for His name's sake.

2 My members were strengthened that they might not fall from His strength.

3 Sicknesses removed from my body, and it stood to the Lord by His will. For His Kingdom is true.

4 O Lord, for the sake of them that are deficient do not remove thy word from me!

5 Neither for the sake of their works do thou restrain from me thy perfection!

6 Let not the luminary be conquered by the darkness; nor let truth flee away from falsehood.

7 Thou wilt appoint me to victory; our Salvation is thy right hand. And thou wilt receive men from all quarters,

8 and thou wilt preserve whosoever is held in evils:

9 Thou art GOD, falsehood and death are not in thy mouth:

10 for thy will is perfection; and vanity thou knowest not,

11 nor does it know thee.

12 And error thou knowest not,

13 neither does it know thee.

14 And ignorance appeared like a blind man; and like the foam of the sea,

15 and they supposed of that vain thing that it was something great;

16 and they too came in likeness of it and became vain; and those have understood who have known and meditated;

17 and they have not been corrupt in their imagination; for such were in the mind of the Lord;

18 and they mocked at them that were walking in error;

19 and they spake truth from the inspiration which the Most High breathed into them; Praise and great comeliness to His name. Hallelujah.