The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language
For to You belongs the war [...] and by the strength of Your hand their corpses were flung down, with none to bury them, [...] and Goliath the Gittite, a mighty warrior,
You delivered into the hand of David Your servant, for he trusted in Your great name and not in sword and spear, [...] for to You belongs the war [...] and the
Philistines [You subdued] many times by Your holy name, [...] and also by the hand of our kings You saved us many times,
for the sake of Your mercies and not according to our deeds by which we did evil, nor the acts of our transgressions [...] to You belongs the war, and from You is might,
and not from us [...] nor is it our strength; and the power of our hands has not done valor, for by Your strength and by the might of Your great power [...] just as You declared
to us of old, saying: A star shall march forth from Jacob, a scepter shall rise from Israel, and shall crush the corners of Moab and tear down all the sons of Sheth, [...]
and one shall come down from Jacob and destroy the survivor of the city, and the enemy shall become a possession, and Israel shall do valor, [...] and by the hand of Your anointed ones,
the seers of testimonies, You have declared to us the [appointed times] of the wars of Your hands, to fight against our enemies, to bring down the troops of Belial — the seven
nations of vanity — by the hand of Your poor ones, whom You redeemed, [by] [strength] and by peace, for wondrous might, so that a melted heart may open a way of hope, [...] and You will deal with them as with Pharaoh
and as with the captains of his chariots in the [Red] Sea. [...] and the crushed in spirit You will kindle like a torch of fire in a sheaf, devouring wickedness; it shall not turn back until
guilt is consumed [...] and of old [You made us hear] the [appointed time] of the might of Your hand against the Kittim, saying: And Assyria shall fall by a sword not of man, and a sword
not of man shall devour him. [...]
For into the hand of the poor You will deliver [the enemies] of all the lands, and into the hand of those who crawl in the dust, to bring low the mighty ones of the peoples, to repay
the wicked their due upon the head [...] and to justify Your true judgment among all the sons of man, and to make for Yourself an everlasting name among the people,
[...] the wars, and to magnify Yourself and to sanctify Yourself in the sight of the rest of the nations, [...] to know [...]
[...] [when] [You execute] judgments against Gog and against all his assembly, those [gathered] [against us] [...]
[...] for You will fight against them from [heaven] [...]
[...] against them, to rout them [...]
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