I stretched out my hands and approached my Lord; For the stretching out of my hands is His sign;
2And my expansion is the outspread wood That was set up on the way of the Righteous One.
3And I became of no use to those who knew me: For I shall hide myself from those who did not take hold of me:
4But I will be with those Who love me.
5All my persecutors have died; And they sought after me who proclaimed about me; Because I am alive.
6And I rose up and am with them; And I will speak by their mouths.
7For they have despised those who persecute them. And I threw over them the yoke of my love:
8Like the arm of the bridegroom over the bride, So is my yoke over those that know me.
9And as the couch that is spread in the chambers of the bridegroom and the bride, So is my love over those that believe in me.
10I was not rejected, though I was reckoned to be so; And I did not perish though they thought it of me.
11Sheol saw me and was in distress; Death cast me up and many along with me:
12I have been gall and bitterness to it, And I went down with it to the extreme of its depth.
13And the feet and the head it let go, For it was not able to endure my face:
14And I made a congregation of living men amongst his dead men; And I spake with them by living lips: In order that my word may not be void.
15And those who had died ran towards me; And they cried and said, Son of God, have pity on us;
16And do with us according to thy kindness; And bring us out from the bonds of darkness:
17And open to us the door By which we shall come out to thee; For we perceive that our death does not touch thee.
18Let us also be saved with thee; For thou art our Saviour.
19And I heard their voice, And I laid up their faith in my heart;
20And I set my name upon their heads: For they are free men and they are mine. Hallelujah.