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Plain text of Ode 20

1 I am a priest of the Lord, and to Him I do priestly service: and to Him I offer the sacrifice of His thought.

2 For His thought is not like the thought of the world nor the thought of the flesh, nor like them that serve carnally.

3 The sacrifice of the Lord is righteousness, and purity of heart and lips.

4 Present your reins before Him blamelessly: and let not thy heart do violence to heart, nor thy soul to soul.

5 Thou shalt not acquire a stranger by the price of thy silver,

6 neither shalt thou seek to devour thy neighbour,

7 neither shalt thou deprive him of the covering of his nakedness.

8 But put on the grace of the Lord without stint; and come into His Paradise and make thee a garland from its tree,

9 and put it on thy head and be glad; and recline on His rest, and glory shall go before thee,

10 and thou shalt receive of His kindness and of His grace; and thou shalt be flourishing in truth in the praise of His holiness. Praise and honour be to His name. Hallelujah.