Translation:Qolasta/Prayer 45

by Mark Lidzbarski

XLV.

Your name is exalted, life,

great is the glory, rich is the light.

The Good One penetrated,

the Founder of the first Mystery,

the Life that became from the Life,

the Kuštā that was from time immemorial at the beginning.

This is the spring of life,

which bubbled up from the place of life,

so that we drink from this spring of life.

He penetrated through life,

founded life and sustained in the house of life.

He penetrated through the worlds,

came, split the firmament and revealed Himself.

You showed us what no eye has seen,

you made us hear what no human ear has heard.

You brought us out of death and connected us with life,

you brought us out of darkness and connected us with light,

you brought us out of evil and connected us with good.

You showed us the way of life

and made us walk the paths of truth and faith.

Let life come and displace death,

let light come and displace darkness,

let the good come and displace the evil.

As the wine mingles with the water,

so mingle your truthfulness, your righteousness and your faith

with all who love your Kuštā name.

And blessed be the life.

Commentary

This is a piece for drinking.

Make Pihtā and Mambuhā

and put them down for the mass.

Then make the myrtle wreath.

Mandaic transcription

šumak iatir hiia asgia ˁqara npiš nhura abar ṭaba šakin raza qadmaia hiia

ḏ-hun mn hiia u-kušṭa ḏ-hua mn qudam b-riša

hazin hu mambuha ḏ-hiia ḏ-nba mn atra ḏ-hiia ḏ-ništia minẖ mn hazin mambuga ḏ-hiia ḏ-abar hiia u-škan hiia u-ˁtqaiam bit hiia ḏ-abar almia u-ata bza rqiha u-ˁtiglia hauitinan aina ḏ-ˁniš lahzat

u-ašmitinan ˁudna ḏ-br anaša la-šimat

apiqtinan mn muta u-laptinan b-hiia

apiqtinan mn hšuka u-laptinan b-nhura

apiqtinan mn biša u-laptinan b-ṭaba

hauitinan ˁuhra ḏ-hiia

u-adriktinan dirkia ḏ-kušṭa u-haimanuta

ḏ-nitun hiia u-nidhunẖ l-muta u-nitia nhura u-nidihiiẖ l-hšuka u-nitia ṭaba u-nidihiiẖ l-biša ˁtarubia hamra b-mia nitarab kušṭak u-zidqak u-haimanutak b-kulhun rahmia šumak ḏ-kušṭa

u-mšabin hiia

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hazin nibza ḏ-mambuga hu šauia pihta u-mambuha u-atna l-masiqta u-haizak šauia klila ḏ-asa

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