The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language
He scoffs at kings, and rulers are a mockery to him [...] Its interpretation: that
they will deride the many and scorn the honored ones; against kings
and princes they will jeer, and they will mock a great people [...] and he
will scoff at every fortress, and heap up earth and capture it [...]
Its interpretation: concerning the rulers of the Kittim, who scorn
the fortresses of the peoples and in mockery scoff at them [...]
and with a great people they surround them to seize them, and with terror and dread
they are given into their hand [...] and they destroy them because of the iniquity of those who dwell
in them [...] Then the spirit passed on and swept by, and he made this his strength,
his god [...] Its interpretation: [concerning] the rulers? of the Kittim
who, by the counsel of the house of [their guilt], pass on, one
before his fellow; [their rulers], [this] one after another they come
to destroy the [land] [...] [and] [he made] this? his strength, his god
Its interpretation: [that all] the peoples [will make]
for [...] to
[...] [Are] [not] [you] [from] [of old],
[O LORD], [my God], [my Holy One]? [We shall] not [die] [...] [O LORD]