Ode 5

1.     I praise You, O Lord, because I love You.

2.     O Most High, forsake me not, for You are my hope.

3.     Freely did I receive Your grace, may I live by it.

4.     My persecutors will come but let them not see me.

5.     Let a cloud of darkness fall upon their eyes; and let an air of thick darkness obscure them.

6.     And let them have no light to see, so that they cannot seize me.

7.     Let their designs become hardened, so that whatever they have conspired shall return upon their own heads.

8.     For they have devised a plan, but it was not for them.

9.     They prepared themselves maliciously, but they were found to be impotent.

10. Indeed my confidence is upon the Lord, and I will not fear.

11. And because the Lord is my salvation, I will not fear.

12. And He is as a woven crown upon my head, and I shall not be shaken.

13. Even if everything should be shaken, I shall stand firm.

14. And though all things visible should perish, I shall not die;

15. Because the Lord is with me, and I with Him.
Hallelujah.