E — Wisdom Literature

Chapter 12

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Scraps of two manuscripts from Cave represent a mixture of sapiential psalms and poems of exorcism. Their editor, M. Baillet, assigns the script to the end of the first century BCE, or the turning of the era. The first fragment preserves an interesting list of names of demons. 4Q510.. praises. Benedictions for the King of glory. Words of thanksgiving in psalms of.. to the God of knowledge, the Splendour of power, the God of gods, Lord of all the holy. His dominion is over all the powerful mighty ones and by the power of his might all shall be terrified and shall scatter and be put to flight by the splendour of the dwelling of his kingly glory. And I, the Master, proclaim the majesty of his beauty to frighten and terrify all the spirits of the destroying angels and the spirits of the bastards, the demons, Lilith, the howlers and the yelpers.. they who strike suddenly to lead astray the spirit of understanding and to appal their heart and their.. in the age of the domination of wickedness and the appointed times for the humiliation of the sons of light, in the guilt of the ages of those smitten by iniquity, not for eternal destruction but for the humiliation of sin. Exalt, O just, the God of marvels. My psalms are for the upright.. May all whose way is perfect exalt him.

4Q511, fr.. on the earth and in all the spirits of his dominion always. Let the seas bless him in their turn and all the creatures living in them. May they proclaim the.. of beauty all of them. Let them rejoice before the God of justice with shouts of salvation, for there shall be no destroyer in their territories, and no spirit of wickedness shall walk in there. For the glory of the God of knowledge has shone forth in his words, and none of the sons of iniquity shall endure. Fr. I For the Master. First Song. Praise the name of his holiness; all who know justice, exalt him.. He put an end to the chief of the dominations without.. eternal joy and everlasting life, to cause light to shine.. his lot is the best of Jacob and the inheritance of God.. of Israel.. they who guard the way of God and the path of his holiness for the saints of his people. By the discerning knowledge of God, he placed Israel in twelve camps.. the lot of God with the angels of the luminaries of his glory. In his name the praises.. he has established for the feast of the year and for a common government that they may walk in the lot of God according to his glory and serve him in the lot of the people of his throne. For the God of.. Fr. For the Master. Second Song to frighten those who terrify him.. Fr. I have hated all the works of impurity. For God has caused the knowledge of understanding to shine in my heart. Just chastisers

with my perversity, and faithful judges with all my sinful guilt. For God is my judge and by the hand of a stranger He shall not.. Frs. 28-9.. they shall rejoice in God with jubilation. And I will thank Thee for, because of Thy glory, Thou hast set knowledge on my foundations of dust to praise Thee.. out of a shape of clay was I moulded and from darkness was I kneaded.. and iniquity is in the limbs of my flesh.. Fr. Thou hast sealed.. the earth.. and they are deep. The heavens and the heavens of the heavens, and the abysses and the dark places of the earth.. Thou, O my God, hast sealed them all and there is none to open.. Does one measure by the hollow of a human hand the waters of the great? Are the heavens estimated by the span? In one third can any contain the dust of the earth, and weigh the mountains in a balance, or the hills in scales? Man did not make these. How can he measure the spirit of God? Fr.. God in all flesh, and an avenging judgement to destroy wickedness, and for the raging anger of God towards those seven times refined. God shall sanctify of the holy as an everlasting sanctuary for himself, and purity shall endure among the cleansed. They shall be priests, his righteous people, his host, servants, the angels of his glory. They shall praise him with marvellous prodigies. I, I spread the fear of God in the ages of my generations to exalt the name.. to terrify by his might all the spirits of the 'bastards', subduing them by his fear..

Frs. 63-4.. I will bless Thy name and in my appointed periods I will recount Thy marvels and I will engrave them as precepts of Thy glory's praises. At the beginning of every thought of a knowing heart and the offering of that which flows from the righteous lips when ready for all true worship and with all.. Fr. As for me, my tongue shall extol Thy righteousness, for Thou hast released it. Thou hast placed on my lips a fount of praise and in my heart the secret of the commencement of all human actions and the completion of the deeds of the perfect of way and the judgements regarding all the service done by them, justifying the just by Thy truth and condemning the wicked for their guilt. To announce peace to all the men of the Covenant and to utter a dreadful cry of woe for all those who breach it.. May they bless all Thy works always and blessed be Thy name for ever and ever. Amen, amen.