The Thanksgiving Hymns (1QH) Dead Sea Scrolls.

Psalm 1

I...

Thou art long-suffering in Thy judgments

and righteous in all Thy deeds.

By Thy wisdom [all things exist from] eternity,

and before creating them Thou knewest their works

for ever and ever.

[Nothing] is done [without Thee]

and nothing is known unless Thou desire it.

 

Thou hast created all the spirits

[and has established a statue] and law

for all their works.

Thou hast spread the heavens for Thy glory

and hast [appointed] all [their hosts]

according to Thy will;

 

the mighty winds according to their laws

before they became angles [of holiness]

...and eternal spirits in their dominions;

the heavenly lights to their mysteries,

and stars to their paths,

[the clouds] to their tasks,

the thunderbolts and lightenings to their duty,

and the perfect treasuries 9of snow and haik0

to their purposes,...to thie mysteries.

 

Thou hast created the earth by Thy power

and the seas and deeps [by Thy might].

Thou hast fashioned [all] their [inhabi]tants

according to Thy wisdom,

and hast appointed all that is in them

according to Thy will

 

[And] to the spirit of man

which thou hast formed in the world,

[Thou hast given dominion over the works of Thy hands]

for everlasting days and unending generations.

.....in their ages

Thou hast alloted to them tasks

during all their generations,

and Judgment in their appointed seasons

according to the rule [of the two spirits,

 

For Thou hast established their ways]

for ever and ever,

[and has ordained from eternity]

their visitation for reward and chastisements;

Thou hast allotted it to all their seed

for eternal generations and everlasting years...

In the wisdom of Thy knowledge

Thou didst establish their destiny before ever they were.

All thing [exist] according to [Thy will]

and without The nothing is done.

 

These things I know

by the wisdom which comes from Thee,

for thoust unstopped my ears

to marvelous mysteries.

 

And yet I, a shape of clay

kneeded in water,

a ground of shame

and a source of pollution,

a melting-pot of wickedness

and an edifice of sin,

a straying and perverted spirit

of no understanding,

fearful of righteous judgements,

what can I say that is not foreknown,

and what can I utter that is not foretold?

All things are graven before Thee

on a written Reminder

for everlasting ages

and for the numbered cycles

of the eternal years

in all theit seasons;

they ar not hidden or absent from Thee.

 

what shall a man say

concerning his sin?

And how shall he plead

concerning his iniquities?

And how shall he reply

to righteous judgment?

For thine, O God of knowledge,

are all righteous deeds

and the counsel of truth;

but to the sons of men is the work of iniquity

and deeds of deceit.

 

It is Thou who hast created breath for the tongue

and Thou knowest its words;

Thou didst establish the fruit of the lips

before ever they were.

Thou dost set words to measure

and the flow of breath from lips to metre.

Thou bringest forth sounds

according to their mysteries,

and the flow of breath from the lips

according to its reckoning,

that they may tell Thy glory

and recount Thy wonders

in all Thy words of truth

and [in all Thy] righteous [judgments];

and that Thy Name be praised

by the mouth of all men,

and that they may know Thee

according to their understanding

and bless Thee for ever.

 

By Thy mercies and by Thy great goodness,

Thou hast strengthened the spirit of man

in the face of the scourge,

and hast purified [the erring spirit]

of a multitude of sins,

that it may declare Thy marvels

in the presence of all Thy cratures

[I will declare to the assembly of the simple]

the judgments by which I was scourged,

and to the sons of men, all Thy wonders

by which Thou hast shown Thyself might [in me

in the presence of the sons of Adam]

 

Hear, O you wise men, and meditate on knowledge;

O you fearfuk, be steadfast!

Increase in prudence, [O all you simple];

O you fearful, be steadfast!

In crease in prudence, [O all you simplej];

O just men, put away iniquity!

Hold fast [to the Covenantj],

O all you perfect of way;

[O all you afflicted with] misery,

be patient and despise no righteous Judgment!

...

[but the fool]ish of heart

shall not comprehend these things.

...

 

 

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