1 As the wings of doves over their nestlings; and the mouth of their nestlings towards their mouths,

2 so also are the wings of the Spirit over my heart:

3 my heart is delighted and exults: like the babe who exults in the womb of his mother:

4 I believed; therefore I was at rest; for faithful is He in whom I have believed:

5 He has richly blessed me and my head is with Him: and the sword shall not divide me from Him, nor the scimitar;

6 for I am ready before destruction comes: and I have been set on His immortal pinions:

7 and immortal life has come forth and given me to drink; and from that life is the spirit within me, and it cannot die, for it lives.

8 They who saw me marvelled at me, because I was persecuted, and they supposed that I was swallowed up: for I seemed to them as one of the lost;

9 and my oppression became my salvation; and I was their reprobation because there was no zeal in me;

10 because I did good to every man I was hated,

11 and they came round me like mad dogs, who ignorantly attack their masters,

12 for their thought is corrupt and their understanding perverted.

13 But I was carrying water in my right hand, and their bitterness I endured by my sweetness;

14 and I did not perish, for I was not their brother nor was my birth like theirs,

15 and they sought for my death and did not find it: for [my message] was older than the memorial of them;

16 and vainly did they make attack upon me and those who, without reward, came after me:

17 they sought to destroy the memorial of [the truth] that was before them:

18 for the thought of the Most High cannot be anticipated; and His heart is superior to all wisdom. Hallelujah.