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Open ye, open ye your hearts to the exultation of the Lord:
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And let your love be multiplied from the heart and even to the lips,
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To bring forth fruit to the Lord [fruit], holy [fruit], and to talk with watchfulness in His light.
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Rise up, and stand erect, ye who sometime were brought low:
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Tell forth ye who were in silence, that your mouth hath been opened.
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Ye, therefore, that were despised, be henceforth lifted up, because your righteousness hath been exalted.
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For the right hand of the Lord is with you: and He is your helper:
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And peace was prepared for you, before ever your war was.
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Hear the word of truth, and receive the knowledge of the Most High.
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Your flesh has not known what I am saying to you neither have your hearts known what I am showing to you.
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Keep my secret, ye who are kept by it:
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Keep my faith, ye who are kept by it.
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And understand my knowledge, ye who know me in truth.
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Love me with affection, ye who love:
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For I do not turn away my face from them that are mine;
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For I know them, and before they came into being I took knowledge of them, and on their faces I set my seal:
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I fashioned their members: my own breasts I prepared for them, that they might drink my holy milk and live thereby.
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took pleasure in them and am not ashamed of them:
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For my workmanship are they and the strength of my thoughts:
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Who then shall rise up against my handiwork, or who is there that is not subject to them?
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I willed and fashioned mind and heart: and they are mine, and by my own right hand I set my elect ones:
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And my righteousness goeth before them and they shall not be deprived of my name, for it is with them.
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Ask, and abound and abide in the love of the Lord,
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And yet beloved ones in the Beloved: those who are kept, in Him that liveth:
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And they that are saved in Him that was saved;
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And ye shall be found incorrupt in all ages to the name of your Father. Hallelujah.
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