The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language
Your light will stand from [then] [...]
Your light, without [ceasing] [...]
For you are a light for [...]
and you uncover the ear of dust [...] [...]
a plan which [...] and confirm it in [the ear of]
your servant forever [...] [the reports] of your wonder to shine forth
before the eyes of all who hear [...] with the right hand of your strength to guide all of them
by the power of your might [...] [he shall praise] your name and be strengthened in your glory [...]
You will not withdraw your hand from [...] [for] it to be [for him], strengthening himself in your covenant
and standing before you in [perfection] [...] [for] you opened [a spring] in the mouth of your servant and on my tongue
you engraved upon the measuring-line of [judgment], [to] [proclaim] to the creature from his understanding, and to interpret concerning these things
to dust like myself [...] and you opened [a spring] to reprove the creature of clay of his way, and the guilt of one born
of woman according to his deeds, and to open [the spring] of your truth to the creature whom you sustained by your strength [...]
to [raise up] according to your truth a herald, [and] [to] [proclaim] your good news to the poor according to the abundance of your mercies
[and] [to] [satisfy] from the spring of [knowledge] [all] [the stricken] of spirit, and mourners with everlasting joy [...]
[and] [you opened] [the mouth of] [your servant] [...] to [...] to [...] to [...]
[...] let them proclaim [...]
[...] forever, and your insight [...]
[...] in it, and in your land, and among the sons of gods it is honored [...] [...] who [shall stand]
[for] [ever] to praise you and to recount all your glory [...] and I, what [am I] [...] for from dust I was taken [...] and [you]
[my God], for your glory you have done all these things [...] according to the abundance of your mercies, grant a guard of your righteousness
[before] [you] always, unto deliverance [...] and interpreters of knowledge with all who walk with me, and reprovers of truth
[in] [all] my steps [...] and what is dust [...] in their hands, [and] [the work of] ash in their hand — behold, not [...] and you
[have fashioned] [the creature] of clay, and from the source of righteousness [you have made it] for your will [...] and concerning the sons you will test me [...]
[...] according to your greatness [...] [he returns to] [God's] dust [...] and over dust you have breathed a spirit
[of your holiness] [...] in [clay] [...] gods to unite with the sons of heaven
[...] forever, and there is no return of darkness [...] for
[...] and a light you have revealed, and it will not return
[...] [the spirit] [of your holiness] you have breathed to purge guilt
[...] [ministers] with your host, and those who walk
[...] from before you [...] for they are established in your truth [...]
[...] you have caused these to fall for your glory, and from the source of righteousness
[...] to [the lot of] the perverse creature, abhorred
[...] [the creature] abhorred
[...]