Translation:Qolasta/Oxford Collection/Part 1/Prayer 44

by Mark Lidzbarski

XLIV.

In the name of the great life

be glorified the noble light.

At the gate of the People's House

the Mother meets Mirjai.

The Mother meets Mirjai

and asks her:

"Where did you come from,

my daughter Mirjai,

whose face picks roses?

Your face is picking roses,

and your eyes are full of sleep.

Your eyes are full of sleep,

and over your forehead there is slumber".

To this she replies:

"Yes, two or three days ago

my brothers settled in my father's house.

In the house of my father my brothers settled down

and recite wondrous hymns.

Because of their voice and the sound of the hymns

of the Uthras, my brothers, sleep does not come over my eyes.

No sleep comes over my eyes,

no slumber over my forehead".

"Have you not heard, my daughter Mirjai,

what the Jews say of you?

The Jews say:

'Your daughter has conceived love for a man.

She has hatred for Judaism

and love for Nāsōraenism.

She has hatred for the People's House

and love for the gates of the temple.

She has hatred for the Ṭuṭiftā

and love for the emblazoned wreaths.

On the Sabbath she does work,

on Sunday she keeps her hands quiet.

Mirjai has rejected the law

which the seven bound in Jerusalem'".

As Mirjai stands in their place,

she puts dust on her feet

and speaks:

"Dust into the mouth of the Jews,

Ashes into the mouth of all the priests.

The dung that is under the horses

come upon the elders who are in Jerusalem.

I cannot hate whom I have loved,

I cannot love whom I have hated.

Yes, I have loved my lord Mandā d-Haijē

(and hope) that in him a helper will arise for me,

a helper and a support

from the place of darkness to the place of light."

You were victorious, Mandā d-Haijē,

and helped all your friends to victory.

And the life is victorious.

Transcription

b-šumaihun ḏ-hiia rbia

mraurab nhura šania

ˁl baba ḏ-bit ama

ˁma b-miriai tibga

ˁma tibga b-miriai

u-šaiulia tišaila

mna ˁtit brat miriai

ḏ-anpik u-arda gaṭpia

anpik gaṭpia u-arda

u-ainik mlˁia mn šintun

ainik mn šintun mlˁia

u-l-bit gbinik šaharta

amrala

ha trin tlata iumia

ahai l-bit ab šrun

ahai šrun l-bit ab

u-daršin drašia šaniia

ˁl qalaiun u-qal drašaiun

ḏ-ˁutria ahai

šinta l-ainai l-atia

la-šinta atia l-ainai

u-la-šaharta l-bit gbinai

la-šmit brat miriai

ḏ-iahuṭaiia mahu amria ˁlik

amria iahuṭaiia

ḏ-bratik gabra rihmat

snatẖ l-iahiduta

u-naṣaruta rihmat

snatẖ l-bit ama

u-rihmat baba ḏ-maškna

snatẖ l-ṭuṭipta

u-rihmat klilia rauzia

b-šapta abda ˁbidata

u-b-habšaba naṭra ˁda

aslitẖ miriai l-nimusa

ḏ-asar šuba b-ˁurašlam

ˁl atra kḏ qaima miriai

aqapra b-ligra dara

u-amra

aqapra ˁl pumaihun ḏ-iahuṭaiia

u-giṭma ˁl pumaihun ḏ-kulhun kahnia

sarqina ḏ-atutia rakšia

ˁl qašiša ḏ-ˁtba b-ˁurašlam

ana ḏ-rhamtẖ la-ˁsiniiẖ

u-dsnaitẖ la-ˁrihmẖ

l-bar rhamtẖ l-marai manda ḏ-hiia

ḏ-niqum nihuilia b-ahid ˁda

ahid ˁda u-simaka

mn atra ḏ-hšuk l-atar nhur

zkit manda ḏ-hiia

u-zakit kulhun rahmak

u-hiia zakˁn

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