Odes of Solomon/Ode 9

That Those Who Have Known God May Not Perish

¹ Open your ears and I will speak to you.

² Give me your soul, so that I may also give you my soul.

³ The utterance of the Lord and his desires

are the holy thought he thought about his anointed one.

⁴ For by the will of the Lord is your life,

and (the intention of) his mind is eternal life,

and your end is immortality.

⁵ Be enriched in God the Father,

and receive the (intention of the) mind of the Most High!

Be strong and be redeemed as his favor!

⁶ For I proclaim peace to you, his saints,

so that none of those who hear may fall in the war,

⁷ and that also those who have known him may not perish,

and that those who will receive will not be ashamed.

⁸ The eternal wreath is truth

– blessed are they who put it on their head –

⁹ a stone of great price.

For there have been wars because of the wreath,

¹⁰ and Victory took (the wreath) and gave it to you.

¹¹ Put on the wreath in the steadfast covenant of the Lord!

And all those who have conquered will be written in his book,

¹² for their inscription is your victory.

And Victory sees you in front of her,

and she desires that you be redeemed.

Hallelujah!