Chapter IV

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No man changes thy holy place, O my God, And there is no one who will change it and set it in another place, ² For none has authority over it; ¹ Or ‘Because there is no authority over it’. For thou didst purpose thy sanctuary before thou madest places: ³ What ² Or ‘He who’. is older will not be changed by those that are younger than it. ³ Or ‘he’. Thou has given thy heart, O Lord, to thy faithful ones: ⁴ Thou wilt never be ineffectual, Nor wilt thou be fruitless; ⁵ For one hour of thy faithfulness ⁴ Or ‘faith in thee’. Is better than all days and years. ⁶ For who will put on thy grace and be rejected? ⁷ Because thy seal is 〈kn〉own, And thy creatures are known to it, ⁸ And 〈the〉 hosts 〈h〉old it, And the elect archangels are clothed in it. ⁹ Thou hast given us communion with thee: ⁵ Or ‘thy fellowship’. It was not that thou wast in need of us, but that we were in need of thee. ¹⁰ Sprinkle upon us thy dews, And open thy rich springs which flow with milk and honey for us. ¹¹ For there is no regret with thee, That thou shouldest feel regret for anything that thou hast promised; ¹² And the end was manifest to thee. ¹³ For what thou hast given thou hast given freely, So that thou shouldest not take them back henceforth; ⁶ Text ‘So that thou shouldest not henceforth pull and take them’. For everything was manifest to thee, as God, ¹⁴ And was prepared from the beginning before thee; And thou, O God, hast made all. ¹⁵ Hallelujah.