The Psalms of Thanksgiving To YAHWEH

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YAHWEH All THY Judgments Are Truth

When first the world began 
You didst shed an HOLY SPIRIT
on all You didst bring into being, 
and make them all to attest
Thy wondrous mysteries. 
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You didst show Thy handiwork 
in all that You didst make.
You didst reveal Thy glory
in all their varied shapes,
Thy truth in all their works.
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On all that keep Thy charge 
You bestowest grace abounding 
and mercies never failing;
but upon all things that defy Thee 
You bringest perdition eternal.
So, if mortal men
keep faith with Thee,
behold, You crownest their heads 
with glory everlasting 
and compassest their works
with perennial joy;
but  the wicked.

On those whom You hast honored 
to show forth all Thy works
-on those, as on the host of Thy spirits, 
the congregation of Thy Kodesh Beings, 
the sky with all its array,
the earth with all its produce,
all things in lakes and seas
-on those, ere You didst create them, 
You didst impose a task
and a perpetual charge.
For when first the world began
You didst so ordain them
and appoint the work of each
that they should tell forth Thy glory throughout Thy dominion,
showing unto them
what none would else have seen,
how ancient things pass over
and new things are ever created,
how the things established of old become like pacts annulled,
yet the future is ever assured; 
while You YAHWEH everlasting, 
and You wilt endure for all time.

In Thine inscrutable wisdom
You hast assigned to all these
natures diverse and varied
that Thy glory may be made known.
Yet, how can a spirit of flesh 
understand all these things?
How can it conceive
Thy so great mystery?
How can the child of woman
fathom Thine awesome thoughts?

A fabric of dust is he,
a thing kneaded with water,
a mass of filth,
whose foundation is naked shame ,
and who is ruled by a spirit perverse.
Prone unto wrongdoing, **
he can serve but as a tiling of revulsion
world without end,
a portent for all generations, 
an object of abhorrence to all flesh! 
Nay, it is only through Thy goodness
and through Thy mercies abundant
that Man can ever do right.
For it is with Thine own beauty
that You dost beautify him,
and only of Thy free bounty
dost You shower him with delights
and grant him peace enduring
and length of days.
And, YAHWEH, when once You hast spoken, 
ne'er is Thy word revoked.

So, for mine own part,
through the spirit You hast planted within me, 
I, Thy servant, am come to know
that all Thy judgments are truth,
and righteousness all Thy works,
and ne'er is Thy word revoked.
None of the terms and times
which You hast foreordained
shall fail to come to pass
-all of them duly chosen
for their appointed ends. 
Therefore I know full surely
that yet the time will come
when You wilt reward the righteous,
and the wicked be utterly doomed.
* Heb. 'If he do wrong'.

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