Odes de Salomão — Ode 22

1He who brought me down from on high, also brought me up from the regions below;

2and He who gathers together the things that are betwixt is He also who cast me down:

3He who scattered my enemies and my adversaries:

4He who gave me authority over bonds that I might loose them;

5He that overthrew by my hands the dragon with seven heads: and thou hast set me over his roots that I might destroy his seed.

6Thou wast there and didst help me, and in every place thy name was a rampart to me.

7Thy right hand destroyed his wicked poison; and thy hand levelled the way for those who believe in thee:

8and thou didst choose them from the graves and didst separate them from the dead.

9Thou didst take dead bones and didst cover them with bodies;

10they were motionless, and thou didst give [them] energy for life.

11Thy way was without corruption, and thy face; thou didst bring thy world to corruption: that everything might be dissolved and then renewed,

12and that the foundation for everything might be thy rock: and on it thou didst build thy Kingdom; and it became the dwelling-place of the saints. Hallelujah.