Ode

 1   3|    Merciful there is no grudging. 8 I have been united to Him,
 2   4|           thy grace, and be hurt? 8 For thy seal is known: and
 3   5|      return upon their own heads: 8 For they have devised a
 4   6|          a river great and broad; 8 For it flooded and broke
 5   7|    because He was gracious to me: 8 Like my nature He became
 6   8|                               Ode 8 ~Note the sudden transition
 7   8|            and He is your helper: 8. And peace was prepared
 8   9|       receive may not be ashamed. 8 An everlasting crown forever
 9  10|        were set upon their heart: 8 And they walked in my life
10  11|          water that doth not die; 8 And my inebriation was not
11  12|           the dawning of thought; 8 And by it the worlds talk
12  14|        bring forth fruit in thee: 8 And open to me the harp
13  15|           beauty He hath made me. 8 I have put on incorruption
14  16|         the strength of His word. 8 For the word of the Lord
15  17|          the height of His truth. 8 And from thence He gave
16  18|    receive men from all quarters. 8 And thou wilt preserve whosoever
17  19|           without incurring pain; 8 And because she was not
18  20|           garland from its tree,. 8 And put it on thy head and
19  22|        those who believe in thee. 8 And thou didst choose them
20  23|        the seal that was upon it. 8 Because it was not permitted
21  24|           that they might remain: 8 And the Lord destroyed the
22  25|       nothing that is not bright: 8 And I was clothed with the
23  26|          bound is His perfection. 8 Who can write the Psalms
24  28|         cannot die, for it lives. 8 They who saw me marvelled
25  29|           me the rod of His power 8 That I might subdue the
26  31|          nothing was due to them. 8 But I endured and held my
27  33|         you forth from perdition, 8 And make you wise in the
28  35|         rested in His perfection, 8 And I spread out my hands
29  36|          stream of righteousness, 8 And my access to Him was
30  38|   proceeds in the right path, and 8 What ever I did not know,
31  39|           will be subject to you. 8 The Lord has bridged them
32  40| redemption in Him stands assured: 8 And His inheritance is immortal
33  41|       writer may be a Gentile (v. 8). ~1 All the Lord's children
34  41|         with the joy of the Lord. 8 All those will be astonished
35  42|        those who persecuted them; 8 And I lifted up over them