The Book of ODE
The Forgotten Books of Eden, by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr., [1926], at sacred-texts.com
ODE 5.
This Ode has strangely appeared in a speech by Salome in another ancient work called the Pistis Sophia.
1. I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, because I love thee;
2. O Most High, thou wilt not forsake me, for thou art my hope:
3. Freely I have received thy grace, I shall live thereby:
4 My persecutors will come and not see me:
5. A cloud of darkness shall fall on their eyes; and an air of thick gloom shall darken them:
6. And they shall have no light to see: they may not take hold upon me.
7. Let their counsel become thick darkness, and what they have cunningly devised, let it return upon their own heads:
8. For they have devised a counsel, and it did not succeed:
9. For my hope is upon the Lord, and I will not fear, and because the Lord is my salvation, I will not fear:
10. And He is as a garland on my head and I shall not be moved; even if everything should be shaken, I stand firm;
11. And if all things visible should perish, I shall not die; because the Lord is with me and I am with Him. Hallelujah.
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