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Odes of Solomon: Ode 25

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1.I was rescued from my bonds and unto thee, my God, I fled: 2 For thou art the right hand of my Salvation and my helper. 3 Thou hast restrained those that rise up against me, 4 And I shall see him no more: because thy face was with me, which saved me by thy grace. 5 But I was despised and rejected in the eye of many: and I was in their eyes like lead, 6 And strength was mine from thyself and help. 7 Thou didst set me a lamp at my right hand and at my left: and in me there shall be nothing that is not bright: 8 And I was clothed with the covering of thy Spirit, and thou didst remove from me my raiment of skin; 9 For thy right hand lifted me up and removed sickness from me: 10 And I became mighty in: the truth, and holy by thy righteousness; and all my adversaries were afraid of me; 11 And I became admirable by the name of the Lord, and was justified by His gentleness, and His rest is for ever and ever. Hallelujah.

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Why does the speaker keep praising God’s ‘right hand’ and ‘covering of thy Spirit’?

The speaker credits deliverance and transformation directly to God’s intervention: “thy right hand of my Salvation” lifts him from bonds, removes sickness, and makes adversaries afraid. The repeated images—right hand, lamp at my right hand, covering of thy Spirit—describe protection, illumination, and a new identity granted by God’s presence and grace.

This poem treats deliverance as both legal vindication and inward change: he is “justified by His gentleness” and clothed in Spirit rather than “raiment of skin,” so praise celebrates rescue and remaking. That double movement—salvation as safety and as sanctification—echoes themes in Psalm 18 and Paul’s language in Romans about justification and new life.

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