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And to the pious will the almighty God

When they shall ask the imperishable God:

Will pluck them from the restless flame, elsewhere

With the immortals, in Elysian field,

Where move far-stretching billows of the lake

I shut the needy out; and formerly

Holy Giver of manna, King of the great realm.

Who hast set in their place the cherubim,

And walk not in the straight way, always mindful

Of the immortal Maker? God is one,

The self-existent and invisible,

To hear the only name of heaven's great God,

The ruler of the world? He by his word

The ruler of the world? He by his word

This is the God who formed four-lettered Adam,

The first one formed, and filling with his name

East, west, and south, and north. The same is he

Who fixed the pattern of the human form,

Who fixed the pattern of the human form,

But vainly go astray and bow the knee

And sit before the doors of godless temples;

And merry with the wickedness of stones

Forget the judgment of the immortal Saviour

Forget the judgment of the immortal Saviour

Who made the heaven and earth. Alas! a race

But secretly love others, and the bond

The greatest kingdom of the immortal King

The greatest kingdom of the immortal King

To hold the scepter over every land

Of the immortal God, the mighty King?

Of the immortal God, the mighty King?

Unto the bitter day. For it shall come,

In all the cities where men suffer ills.

From the Sebastenes Beliar shall come

Hereafter, and the height of hills shall he

Establish, and shall make the sea stand still

And the great fiery sun and the bright moon

And the great fiery sun and the bright moon

And he shall raise the dead, and many signs

But when the threatenings of the mighty God

But when the threatenings of the mighty God

By billow to the earth, it shall consume

Both Beliar and all the haughty men

Shall the whole world be governed by the hands

Shall the whole world be governed by the hands

Then when a widow shall o'er all the world

Gain the rule, and cast in the mighty sea

Gain the rule, and cast in the mighty sea

Of short lived men into the deep shall cast,

Then all the elements shall be bereft

Of order, when the God who dwells on high

Shall roll the heaven, even as a scroll is rolled;

And to the mighty earth and sea shall fall

The entire multiform sky; and there shall flow

And it shall burn the land, and burn the sea,

And it shall burn the land, and burn the sea,

Nor spring, nor winter, nor the summer-time,

Nor autumn. And then of the mighty God

The judgment midway in a mighty age

Of the Orient and of the Occident,

Of the Orient and of the Occident,

Into the world again, and therefore he

But when the threatenings of the mighty God

But when the threatenings of the mighty God

To mount aloft into the starry heaven;

But on the air the Immortal straightway put

But on the air the Immortal straightway put

Cast down the great tower and stirred mortals up

Gave to that city the name of Babylon);--

Now when the tower fell and the tongues of men

Now when the tower fell and the tongues of men

And then the generation tenth appeared

Of mortal men, from the time when the flood

Of mortal men, from the time when the flood

So there were three divisions of the earth

According to the allotment of each man,

And equal were their portions. But the time

Complete of old age on the father came,

And he died; and the sons infringing oaths

Which one should have the royal rank and rule

And others of the same ancestral blood,

Beside her sat the Titans, and all males

In pieces tore, but let the females live

To be reared by the mother. But When now

At the third birth the august Rhea bore,

At the third birth the august Rhea bore,

A female offspring, the fierce Titan men

And with Peneus mixed pours in the sea

But when the Titans heard that there were sons

Them in the earth and guarded them in bonds.

And then the sons of powerful Cronos heard,

And this is the beginning of dire war

With mortals the prime origin of war.]

And then did God award the Titans evil.

The Egyptian kingdom, then that of the Persians

The Egyptian kingdom, then that of the Persians

And of the Medes, and Ethiopians,

And then that of the Macedonians,

And then a message of the mighty God

For first of all the house of Solomon