Odes of Solomon/Ode 4

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And the Elect Archangels are Clothed With Your Seal

¹ No one changes your (celestial) Holy Place, my God,

and no one can change it and put it in another place,

² because there is no authority over it.

For your (celestial) Sanctuary you designed

before you made (earthly) places.

³ What is older will not be changed

by those that are younger.

You have given your heart, O Lord, to your faithful ones.

⁴ Never will you stop, nor be without fruits.

⁵ For a single hour of your faithfulness

is more than all days and years.

⁶ For after putting on your goodness, who is there

who will be condemned?

⁷ Because your seal is known,

and your creatures are known to it:

⁸ And your hosts have it

and the elect archangels are clothed with it.

⁹ You gave us your partnership in intimate union;

it is not that you need us,

but that we need you.

¹⁰ Sprinkle upon us your dew,

and open your abundant fountains

that pour forth milk and honey to us.

¹¹ For there is no regret with you

that you should regret anything that you have promised.

¹² And the ending was clear to you.

¹³ For what you gave,

you gave freely,

so that you will not remove

and take away the things you gave.

¹⁴ For all was clear to you as God,

and arranged in your view from in the beginning.

¹⁵ And you, O Lord, have made all things.

Hallelujah!