Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The Preterist Archive

Translation
Fragment 1 (1) . . . Understanding to strengthen the downcast heart, and to triumph over the spirit in it;
to comfort the Downtrodden in the time of their distress, and as for the hands of the fallen, (2) to hold
them up so they can make vessels of Knowledge, to give Knowledge to the Wise, to increase the
learning of the Upright, so as to comprehend (3) Your wonders that You performed in former days, in
previous generations, the Eternal Insight that (4) You [established] before (establishing) me. And You
kept your Law before me, and Your Covenant You confirmed for me, strengthening (it) upon [my]
heart. (5) . . . to walk in Your Ways. You commanded my heart, and instructed my conscience not to
forget Your Laws. (6) . . . You have . . . Your Law and opened my conscience, and strengthened me to
pursue the Ways of (7) [Truth . . .] Your . . . You made my mouth like a sharp sword and opened my
tongue to words of Holiness. You have put (8) . . . instruction. Let them not meditate upon the doings
of man, whose lips are in the Pit. You strengthened my legs, (9) . . . And by Your hand you
strengthened (me) with days. You sent me in . . . (10) (a heart of stone?) You [re]moved from me and
put a pure heart in its place, remov[ing] evil inclination
Fragment 2 Column 1 (1) Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, because of all His wonders forever. Blessed be
His name, for He saved the soul of the Poor One (Ebion ). (2) He has not despised the Meek ('Ani), nor
has he forgotten the distress of the Downtrodden (Dal). (On the contrary), He opened His eyes to the
Downtrodden, and, inclining His ears, hearkened to (3) the cry of orphans. In His abundant Mercy He
comforted the Meek, and opened their eyes to behold His ways, and their ears, to hear (4) His teaching.
And He circumcised the foreskin of their hearts, and saved them because of his Grace, and He directed
their foot to the Way. He did not abandon them in their great distress, nor (5) give them into the hand
of Violent Ones, nor judge them with the Wicked, nor kindle his wrath against them, nor destroy them
(6) in His anger, though the wrath of His hot anger did not abate at all. But He did not judge them in