1 As the impulse of anger against evil, so is the impulse of joy over what is lovely, and brings in of its fruits without restraint:

2 my joy is the Lord and my impulse is toward Him; this path of mine is excellent:

3 for I have a helper, the Lord.

4 He hath caused me to know Himself, without grudging, by His simplicity: His kindness has humbled His greatness.

5 He [sent a messenger] like me, in order that I might receive Him.

6 [One] was reckoned like myself in order that I might put Him on;

7 and I trembled not when I saw [him]: because He was gracious to me:

8 like my nature [he came] that I might learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him:

9 the [Lord] of knowledge [gives] the word of knowledge:

10 He who created wisdom is wiser than His works:

11 and He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being:

12 wherefore He pitied me in His abundant grace: and granted me to ask from Him and to receive from His sacrifice:

13 because He it is that is incorrupt, the fulness of the ages and the [Lord] of them.

14 He hath given [a messenger] to be seen of them that are His,

15 in order that they may recognize Him that made them: and that they might not suppose that they came of themselves:

16 for knowledge He hath appointed as its way. He hath widened it and extended it; and brought it to all perfection;

17 and set over it the traces of His light, and I walked therein from the beginning even to the end.

18 For by Him it was wrought, and [His word] was resting in the [servant], and for its salvation He will take hold of everything:

19 and the Most High shall be known in His Saints, to announce to those that have songs of the coming of the Lord;

20 that they may go forth to meet Him, and may sing to Him with joy and with the harp of many tones:

21 the seers shall come before Him and they shall be seen before Him,

22 and they shall praise the Lord for His love: because He is near and beholdeth,

23 and hatred shall be taken from the earth, and along with jealousy it shall be drowned:

24 for ignorance hath been destroyed, because the knowledge of the Lord hath arrived.

25 They who make songs shall sing the grace of the Lord Most High;

26 and they shall bring their songs, and their heart shall be like the day: and like the excellent beauty of the Lord their pleasant song:

27 and there shall neither be any thing that breathes without knowledge, nor any that is dumb:

28 for He hath given a mouth to His creation, to open the voice of the mouth towards Him, to praise Him:

29 confess ye His power, and show forth His grace. Hallelujah.