- Do Not Kill Your Own Soul
- 1 I am a priest of the Lord,
- and to him I serve as a priest,
- 2 and to him I offer the sacrifice of his thought.
- 3 For his thought is not like the thought of the age,
- nor like the thought of the flesh,
- nor like those who serve according to the flesh.
- 4 The sacrifice of the Lord is justice,
- and purity of heart and lips.
- 5 Sacrifice your mind without blemish,
- and let not your feelings oppress another’s feelings,
- nor let your soul oppress another’s soul.
- 6 Do not kill your own soul by owning a foreigner,
- nor seek to defraud your neighbor,
- nor deprive him of the covering of his nakedness.
- 7 But cover yourself with the Lord’s steadfast love without envy,
- and come into his paradise
- and make a wreath for yourself from his tree,
- 8 and set it on your head and rejoice,
- and lean on his resting place.
- 9 And his glory will go before you,
- and you will receive of his kindness and of his steadfast love,
- and with truth your health will flourish in the glory of his holiness.
- 10 Glory and honor to his name!
- Hallelujah!