1 I stretched out my hands and approached my Lord:

2 for the stretching of my hands is His sign:

3 my expansion is [the posture of prayer].

4 And I became of no account to those who did not take hold of me; and I shall be with those who love me.

5 All my persecutors are dead; and they sought after me who hoped in me, because I was alive:

6 and I [was raised by GOD] and am with them; and I will speak by their mouths.

7 For they have despised those who persecuted them;

8 and I lifted up over them the yoke of my love;

9 like the arm of the bridegroom over the bride,

10 so was my yoke over those that know me:

11 and as the couch that is spread in the house of the bridegroom and bride

12 so is my love over those that believe in me.

13 And I was not rejected though I was reckoned to be so.

14 I did not perish, though they devised it against me.

15 Sheol saw me and was made miserable:

19 and I made a congregation of living men amongst his dead men, and I spake with them by living lips:

20 because my word shall not be void:

25 And I heard their voice; and [GOD's] name I sealed upon their heads:

26 for they are free men and they are [GOD's]. Hallelujah.