The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language
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[Blessed] [are you] [O God] [Most High] [who] by the spring of your might have given us understanding [...] us
[...] [and] [concerning] [your] [wondrous] [deeds], what shall we reply [...] for you have dealt with us [an abundance] of [mercies] to do wonders
and ... [...] they have no strength to know [your] [glory] [and] [to] [recount] [your wonders]
[...] for [ever], for they praise you according to their understanding [...] and according to their knowledge, [in] [your glory] [for] [you]
have opened [...] your ... without [ceasing] [...] from age to age they proclaim, and from season [to] season [they bless]
with voice [...] and we, gathered together in the Community, your mighty deeds, and with those who know [we are disciplined] for you, and [we will sing] [with] [abundant]
[your mercies] [...] with your mighty deeds, and in wonder we recount together in [the knowledge of] [God] and until [...]
in the congregation of [...] and our offspring [you have made known] [to] the sons of man in the midst of [the sons] of Adam [...]
for [...] [in] wonder greatly [...]
[Blessed] [are you] [O God] [of] [mercies], with a song, a psalm for [the Instructor] [...] a song of joy [...]
[...] [they love] you all the days [...] and I [...]
[truth] [...] and I love you freely [...] and with all my heart and with all my soul I have purified myself from iniquity [...] [and] [concerning] [my soul]
[I have resolved] [not] to turn aside from all that you commanded [...] and I will hold fast over the Many, appointed times for [the day] [of slaughter], [not]
to forsake any of your statutes [...] and I know by your understanding that not by the hand of flesh [can] man [be made perfect in]
his way, and man cannot establish his step [...] and I know that in your hand is the nature of every spirit, [and] [all] [its activity]
you established before you created it [...] and how can anyone change your words [...] only you [have created]
the righteous one, and from the womb you established him for a time of favor, to keep your covenant and to walk in all of it, and to bring upon him
with the abundance of your mercies, and to open all the distress of his soul to everlasting salvation and eternal peace, with no lack [...] and you have raised
his glory from flesh [...] and the wicked you created for [the purpose of] your wrath [...] and from the womb you set them apart for the day of slaughter [...]
for they walked in a way that is not good, and they rejected [your covenant], and [your statutes] their soul abhorred [...] and they did not desire anything that
you commanded, and they chose what you hated [...] for you established them for [the periods] of [your wrath], to execute upon them great judgments
before the eyes of all your works, and to become a sign and [a portent] for [generations] to come, that all might know your glory and your power
the great [...] and what indeed is he, flesh, that he should understand [these things], and [a creature] of dust, how can he establish his step [...]
you have formed the spirit and its activity [you established] [from] [eternity] [...] and from you is the way of all the living [...] and I know that
no wealth can be compared with your truth, and there is nothing in [the world] like [the angels] of your holiness [...] and I know that in them you have chosen from all
and forever they shall serve you [...] and you do not accept a bribe for [deeds] of [evil], and you do not take a ransom for deeds of wickedness [...] for
you are a God of truth, and all iniquity you will destroy for[ever], and [all] wickedness shall not exist before you [...] and I know you
for yours is [the way] of [all] the living, and in your will [...] [every] deed [...] and [I know] [that] [...]
your holiness in [...]
for in [...]