The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language
[...] in your turning back from chaos [...]
[...] of [the holy ones] [...]
and all [...] between good and [evil, forever]
everlasting [...] [...] [...] and [...]
in them, and ... [...] [...] for [you] [my God] [are the source] [of knowledge] and the hope of the ...
and the fountain of [might] [...] great [is the] counsel [...] without number, and your zeal [...]
before your wisdom [...] and slow to anger in your judgments; you are righteous in all your deeds [...]
and in your wisdom [...] everlasting, and before you created them you knew all their deeds
for everlasting ages [...] and [without you] [nothing] is done, and nothing is known without your will [...] you formed
every spirit, and [their work] [you established], and judgment for all their deeds [...] and you stretched out the heavens
for your glory, and all [...] [you established] for your will, and mighty spirits for their statutes before
their being, for angels of [holiness] [and] [...] for eternal spirits in their dominions, luminaries for their mysteries
stars for [their paths], [and] [storm] [winds] for their burden, meteors and lightnings for their service, and treasuries
of thought for [their purposes] [...] for their mysteries [...] you created the earth by the breadth of your might
seas and deeps [you made] [by] [your strength], [and] [their designs] you established by your wisdom, and all that is in them
[you fixed] according to [your will] [...] for the spirit of man whom you formed in the world for all everlasting days
and everlasting generations for [...] according to their appointed times [...] you divided their service throughout all their generations, and [judgment]
in its appointed times for [the dominion of] [...] and [their ways] you established for generation and generation, and the reckoning of their peace with
with all their afflictions [...] and you divided it to all their offspring for the number of everlasting generations
and for all everlasting years [...] and in the wisdom of your knowledge [you established] [their appointed time] before
their being [...] and according to [your will] all [came to be], and without you nothing is done [...]
These things I know from your understanding, for you have uncovered my ear to wondrous mysteries [...] and I am a creature of clay, kneaded with water
a foundation of shame and a source of impurity, a crucible of iniquity and a structure of sin, a spirit of error and perversion without
understanding, terrified by righteous judgments [...] what shall I speak that is not known, and what shall I utter that is not told [...] all
is inscribed before you in a record of remembrance for all everlasting ages, and the cycles of the number of everlasting years in all their appointed times [...]
and they are not hidden nor lacking from before you [...] and what can man recount of his sin, and how can he argue about his iniquities
and how can a perverse one answer concerning the judgment of righteousness [...] to you, you are the God of knowledge, all deeds of righteousness
and the foundation of truth [...] and to the sons of man the service of iniquity and the deeds of deceit [...] you created
a spirit in the tongue [...] and you know its words, and you fixed the fruit of the lips before they existed [...] and you set words upon a measuring line
and the utterance of the spirit of the lips by measure [...] and you brought forth lines for their mysteries, and utterances of spirits for their reckoning, to make known
your glory, and to recount your wonders in all your deeds of truth, and [your judgments] of righteousness, and to praise your name
with the mouth of [...] all who know you; according to their understanding they shall bless you for everlasting [ages] [...] and you, in your mercies
and the greatness of your kindnesses, you have strengthened the spirit of man before affliction, and the soul of [the poor] you have purified from abundant iniquity
to recount your wonders before all your works [...] and [I will tell] [continually] in their midst the judgments of my affliction
and to the sons of man all your wonders which you have shown mighty [in me] [before] [the sons of] man [...] hear
O wise men, and those who bow low in knowledge [...] and the hasty shall become a steadfast inclination [...] [all] [the upright] [of way] add prudence [...]
O righteous, make injustice cease [...] and all who are perfect of way [hold fast] [...] O crushed poor, be patient, prolong
patience [...] and do not reject the [righteous] [judgments] [...] [and] the faint of heart shall not understand
these things, and ... [...]
[the tyrants] shall gnash [their teeth] [...]