As the wings of doves over their nestlings, And the mouths of their nestlings towards their mouths; So also are the wings of the Spirit over my heart.
2My heart is delighted and leaps up, Like the babe who leaps up in the womb of his mother:
3I believed; therefore I was at rest: For faithful is He in whom I have believed.
4He has richly blessed me, And my head is with Him. And the sword shall not divide me from Him, Nor the scimitar.
5For I was ready before destruction came; And I have been set on His immortal pinions;
6And deathless life embraced me And kissed me.
7And from that (life) is the Spirit within me; And it cannot die, for it lives.
8They who saw me marvelled at me, Because I was persecuted;
9And they supposed that I was swallowed up; For I seemed to them as one of the lost.
10But my oppression Became my salvation.
11And I was their scorn; Because there was no wrath in me.
12Because I did good to every man I was hated;
13And they came round me like mad dogs; Who ignorantly attack their masters.
14For their thought is corrupt And their understanding perverted.
15But I was carrying water in my right hand, And their bitterness I endured by my sweetness.
16And I did not perish, for I was not their brother, Nor was my birth like theirs.
17And they sought for my death and could not (accomplish it); For I was older than the memorial of them; And vainly did they cast lots against me.
18And those who came after me Sought without cause to destroy the memorial of him who was before them.
19For the thought of the Most High cannot be anticipated; And His heart is superior to all wisdom. Hallelujah.