Translation:Qolasta/Prayer 90


 * 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
 * s_____a