The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language
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my heart with revilings, with the mouth of [...]
and disaster without limit, and destruction without [measure] [...] [and] [you], [my God]
You uncovered my ear to [discipline], reprovers of righteousness, with [...]
from the congregation of falsehood and from the council of violence [...] and you brought me into the counsel of holiness [...] guilt [...]
And I knew that there is hope for those who turn from transgression and forsake sin, through it [...] and to walk
in the way of your heart without perversity [...] and I take comfort over the multitude of a people and over the tumult of kingdoms, when they are gathered [...] [for] [my salvation], which
you raise up for the lowly, a remnant among your people, and a remainder in your inheritance [...] and you refine them to purify them from guilt [and] [from] [sinning in] all
their deeds, in your truth [...] and by your kindnesses you shall judge them, in the abundance of your mercies and the greatness of forgiveness, and according to your mouth to instruct them [...]
and as your truth is upright, to establish them in your counsel [...] for your glory and for your own sake [you have done], to magnify the law and [...] [to] [...]
the men of your counsel in the midst of the sons of man, to recount to their everlasting generations your wonders, and of [your mighty deeds] [they shall speak]
without ceasing [...] and all nations shall know your truth, and all peoples your glory [...] for you have brought [...] your council
to all the men of your counsel, and in the lot of the Community with the angels of the presence [...] and there is no interpreter between them, to [...] [to] answer
as a spirit [...] for [...] and they shall return by the mouth of your glory, and your princes shall be in the [everlasting] [lot], [and] their stock
shall blossom like a flower [it shall blossom] [for] everlasting splendor, to make great a shoot from the branches of an everlasting planting [...] and it shall cast shade over all the world, and [its branches]
unto the skies, and its roots unto the deep [...] and all the rivers of Eden [shall water] [its branches], and it shall be for days without [end]
measure [...] and they girded themselves over the world without limit, and unto Sheol [...] [and] it became a spring of light, a fountain
everlasting, without removal [...] in its bright flames all the sons of [iniquity] shall burn, [and] [it shall become] a burning fire among all the men of
guilt, until destruction [...] and they, who cling to my testimony, were seduced by [interpreters] [of error], [to] bring a stranger into the service of righteousness [...]
And you, God, commanded them to profit from their ways, in the way of [holiness] [in which] [they should walk] by it [...] and the uncircumcised and the unclean and the violent
shall not pass through it [...] and they shall stumble from the way of your heart, and in the disaster of [their transgression] [they shall stumble] [...] and like the counsel of Belial
is with their heart, [and] [they devise] a scheme of wickedness, they wallow in guilt [...] and [I] [was] like a sailor on a ship in the raging
of the seas [...] their waves, and all their breakers upon me [...] a spirit of confusion roars, [with] [no] calm to restore the soul, and there is no
path to make straight a way upon the face of the waters [...] and the deep roars at my sighing, and [my life] [drew near] to the gates of death [...] and I became
like one entering a besieged city, and taking refuge in a wall raised high for deliverance [...] and [I lean] on your truth, my God, for you
set a foundation upon rock, and a beam upon the line of judgment, and a plummet of [truth], to [make] tested stones for building
a strong wall that shall not shake [...] and all who enter it shall not be moved [...] for no stranger shall enter its gates; doors of a shield without
entrance, and bars of strength that shall not be broken [...] no troop shall enter with its weapons of war until all the arrows
of wicked wars are spent [...] and then the sword of God shall hasten in the time of judgment [...] and all the sons of his truth shall awake to [cut off]
wickedness, and all the sons of guilt shall be no more [...] and the mighty one shall bend his bow, and shall open the sieges of the heavens
to an endless expanse [...] and the everlasting gates, to bring out weapons of war [...] and they shall be mighty from end to end, and [arrows]
shall be shot, and there is no escape for the inclination of guilt [...] to destruction they shall trample, and there is no remnant, and no hope amid the multitude of corpses
and for all the mighty men of war there is no escape [...] for to God Most High [...]
and those who lie in the dust have raised a standard, and the worm of the dead have lifted a banner for [...] they shall shoot [...]
in the wars of the arrogant [...] and when the overflowing scourge passes, it shall not enter the stronghold [...]
[...] [to] [...] to [...] to plaster, and as a beam to [...]
from [...]
truth [...]