{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/fbe/fbe210.htm","path":"bib/fbe/fbe210.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe210.htm","text":"The Forgotten Books of Eden, by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr., [1926]\nThe beauty of God's creation.\n1 As the work of the husbandman is the ploughshare: and the work of the steersman is the guidance of the ship:\n 2 So also my work is the Psalm of the Lord: my craft and my occupation are in His praises:\n 3 Because His love bath nourished my heart, and even to my lips His fruits He poured out.\n 4 For my love is the Lord, and therefore I will sing unto Him:\n 5 For I am made strong in His praise, and I have faith in Him.\n 6 I will open my mouth and His spirit will utter in me the glory of the Lord and His beauty; the work of His hands and the operation of His fingers:\n 7 The multitude of His mercies and the strength of His word.\n 8 For the word of the Lord searches out all things, both the invisible and that which reveals His thought;\n 9 For the eye sees His works, and the ear hears His thought;\n 10 He spread out the earth and He settled the waters in the sea:\n 11 He measured the heavens and fixed the stars: and He established the creation and set it up:\n 12 And He rested from His works:\n 13 And created things run in their courses, and do their works:\n 14 And they know not how to stand and be idle; and His heavenly hosts are subject to His word.\n 15 The treasure-chamber of the light is the sun, and the treasury of the darkness is the night:\n 16 And He made the sun for the day that it may be bright, but night brings darkness over the face of the land;\n 17 And their alternations one to the other speak the beauty of God:\n IS And there is nothing that is without the Lord; for He was before any thing came into being:\n 19 And the worlds were made by His word, and by the thought of His heart. Glory and honour to His name. Hallelujah.","title":"The Forgotten Books of Eden: The Odes of Solomon: Ode 16","type":"page"}