The Lantern

Translation-Charlesworth8

CCEL

Behold, all Your laborers are fair, they who work good works, and turn from wickedness to your pleasantness.

For the pungent odor of the trees is changed in Your land,

And everything becomes a remnant of Yourself. Blessed are the workers of Your waters, and eternal memorials of Your faithful servants.

Indeed, there is much room in Your Paradise. And there is nothing in it which is barren, but everything is filled with fruit.

Glory be to You, O God, the delight of Paradise for ever.

Hallelujah.

Ode 12

He has filled me with words of truth, that I may proclaim Him.

And like the flowing of waters, truth flows from my mouth, and my lips declare His fruits.

And He has caused His knowledge to abound in me, because the mouth of the Lord is the true Word, and the entrance of His light.

And the Most High has given Him to His generations, which are the interpreters of His beauty,

And the narrators of His glory,

And the confessors of His purpose,

And the preachers of His mind,

And the teachers of His works.

For the subtlety of the Word is inexpressible, and like His utterance so also is His swiftness and His acuteness, for limitless is His progression.

He never falls but remains standing, and one cannot comprehend His descent or His way.

For as His work is, so is His expectation, for He is the light and dawning of thought.

And by Him the generations spoke to one another, and those that were silent acquired speech.

And from Him came love and equality, and they spoke one to another that which was theirs.

And they were stimulated by the Word, and knew Him who made them, because they were in harmony.

For the mouth of the Most High spoke to them, and His exposition prospered through Him.

For the dwelling place of the Word is man, and His truth is love.

Blessed are they who by means of Him have perceived everything, and have known the Lord in His truth.

Hallelujah.