Translation:Qolasta/Prayer 90

by Mark Lidzbarski

XC.

In the name of the great life

be glorified the noble light.

A disciple am I, a new one

I who went to the bank of the Jordan.

My name I took on my head,

in my heart I took my mark.

My sign was not the fire,

not that anointed Christ.

My sign is the Jordan of living waters,

to which no one is a match.

He chooses 1 out of 1,000,

out of 2,000 he chooses 2.

He makes them merchants,

who trade in the Tibil.

They trade with wages and alms,

therefore they shine more than the sun and the moon.

I, to the tribe of the souls

I came, they sent and sent me.

Some bought my goods,

Some wrapped themselves up and lay down.

Some bought my goods,

then his eyes filled with light.

His eyes filled with light,

and he sees the great in the house of perfection.

Many a man did not buy my merchandise,

but went, wrapped themselves and lay down.

They were blind and did not see,

their ears were stopped up, and they did not hear.

Their heart was not awakened to them,

to behold the great things in the house of perfection.

When they were called and they did not answer,

who shall answer them when they call?

Since they were given and they did not accept it,

who shall give them when they ask for it?

They hated the way of life

and loved the abode, the seat of the wicked.

They loved the abode, the seat of the wicked,

yes, now they shall be bound in the abode of the wicked.

Their possessions, their goods

they wrapped for themselves in the pocket of their robe.

When they want to lift up their heads

they shall be cast down to the gates of darkness.

I call out to my chosen ones,

my plants, who stood by the Jordan.

I say to them:

"My sons, [walk] in my way,

do not waver from the dam.

He who wavers from the dam,

lean on the way-stone.

He who wavers from both

sinks into the end of the world".

You were victorious, Mandā d-Haijē,

Good One, you who establish your friends.

We, who praise our Herm,

you will pardon our sins and transgressions.

Life is upheld and is victorious,

and victorious is the man who has gone here.

Commentary

Up to here are the songs and hymns for baptism,

from here down are the songs and hymns for the funeral mass.

Mandaic transcription

b-šumaihun ḏ-hiia rbia

mraurab nhura šania

tarmida ana hadta

ḏ-asgit l-kipẖ ḏ-iardna

šumai ˁl rišai nisbit

u-b-libai nisbit rušmai

rušumai la-hua nura

u-la-hua ḏ-mšiha mša

rušumai iardna ḏ-mia hiia

ḏ-ˁniš b-hailẖ la-mṣia

bahar had mn alpa

u-mn trin alpia bahar trin

mšauilun tangaria

ḏ-bgauẖ ḏ-tibil abdia

mitangria bagra u-zidqa

mn šamiš u-sira nahria

ana l-kana ḏ-nišmata

atit šihlun u-šadrun

ˁka ḏ-zibnẖ l-zibnai

u-ˁka ḏ-ˁtkalal u-škib

ˁka ḏ-zibnẖ l-zibnai

ainẖ ba-nhura ˁtimlia

ainẖ ˁtimlia ba-nhura

hazilẖ l-rba bit tušlima

ˁka ḏ-zibnai la-zibnẖ

azal u-ˁtkalal u-škib

ˁtašaq u-la-hzun

u-ˁṭaraš ˁudnaihun u-la-šma

u-la-maiarlun l-ibaihun

l-mihiziẖ l-rba bit tušlima

ḏ-qrulun u-la-nun

kḏ qarin man ḏ-anilun

ḏ-iahiblun u-la-nsib

kḏ baiin man ḏ-iahiblun

siniuia l-ˁuhra ḏ-hiia

u-l-daura dur bišia rhim

daura rhim dur bišia

habdur bišia nitiabṭun

argbaiun u-minunun

b-knap l-bušaihun ṣarlun

kḏ baiin ḏ-nidalun rišaihun

msarilun l-tiria hšuk

ana l-bhirai qarina

l-šitlai ḏ-qamun l-iardna

amarnalun

bnai b-ˁuhrai bnai b-ˁuhrai

la-tiṣlun minẖ mn miṣra

ḏ-mn miṣra ṣalia

samik ˁlẖ ˁl kudka

ḏ-mn tartinun ṣalia

napil b-saupa ḏ-alma

zkit manda ḏ-hiia

ṭaba ḏ-mqaiim rahmẖ

anin ḏ-mšabinin maran

haṭaian u-hauban tišbuqlan

mištaiin hiia u-zakin

u-zakia gabra ḏ-asgia lka

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alma l-haka ˁniania u-drašia ḏ-maṣbuta hinun mn haka l-tit ˁniania u-drašia ḏ-masiqta hinun

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