Chapter VI

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As the 〈wind〉 ¹ The word supplied also means ‘spirit’. moves over the harp, and the strings speak, ² So does the Spirit of the Lord speak in my members, and I speak by his love. ³ For he destroys anything foreign, And everything is of the Lord. ⁴ For so it was from the beginning, And will be to the end; ⁵ That nothing might withstand him, And nothing might rise up against him. ⁶ The Lord has multiplied the knowledge of himself, ² Or ‘his knowledge’. And has been zealous that the things should be known which, by his grace, have been given us. ⁷ And he has given us his praise for his name: Our spirits praise his Holy Spirit. ⁸ For a stream went out, and became a great and broad river, For it overwhelmed everything, and broke it up, and carried it to the temple; ³ Or ‘and broke up and carried away the temple’. ⁹ And the restraints of men were not able to restrain it, Nor the skill of those who restrain water; ¹⁰ For it came upon the face of the whole earth, And filled everything; ¹¹ And all the thirsty on earth drank, And their thirst was brought to an end and quenched; ¹² For the drink was given by the Most High. ¹³ Blessed, therefore, are the ministers of that drink, Those who have been entrusted with his water: ¹⁴ They have refreshed the dry lips, And have raised up the will that was paralysed; ¹⁵ And souls that were near to expiring They have held back from death; ¹⁶ And limbs that were fallen They have straightened and raised up: ¹⁷ They have given strength to their coming, And light to their eyes; ¹⁸ For everyone has known them in the Lord, And by means of the waters they lived eternal life. ⁴ Or ‘And they lived by means of the eternal living waters’. Hallelujah.