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The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 9

The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language

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struck him with the judgments of wickedness [...] horrors of diseases

evil deeds they did to him, and acts of vengeance on his body of flesh [...] and that which

he said, "Because you have plundered many nations, all shall plunder you

the rest of the peoples [...] Its interpretation concerns the priests of Jerusalem

the last, who gather wealth and unjust gain from the plunder of the peoples

but at the end of days their wealth, together with their plunder, will be given into the hand

of the army of the Kittim, for they are the rest of the peoples [...]

from the blood of man and violence to the land, the city, and all who dwell in it [...]

Its interpretation concerns the [Wicked] Priest, whom because of the iniquity against the Teacher

of Righteousness and the men of his council, God gave into the hand of [his enemies] to afflict him

with a plague, to destroy him in bitterness of soul, because he had done wickedly

against His chosen one [...] "Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set

his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil" -- you have devised shame

for your house, cutting off many peoples, and [sinning against] [your own soul] [...] for

["the stone] [from] the wall will cry out, [and] the beam from the wood [will answer it]" [...]

[Its interpretation] [of] [the word] concerns the [priest] who [...]

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