1 Yea, I will speak forth; hear ye; now listen, ye who from near, and ye who from afar have come seeking the knowledge. Now ponder ye clearly all that concerns him. Not for a second time shall the false teacher slay our life, of the mind or of the body. The wicked is hemmed in with his faith and his tongue!

2 Yea, I will declare the two spirits of the world, the one bountiful and the other harmful, of whom the bountiful thus spake to the harmful: Neither our thoughts, nor commands, nor our understandings, nor our beliefs, nor our deeds, nor our consciences, nor our souls, are at one.

3 Thus I will declare this world's first teaching, that which the all-wise God, the Wise Lord, hath told me. And they among you who will not so fulfil and obey this word, as I now shall conceive and declare it, to these shall the end of life issue in woe.

4 Thus I will declare forth the best of beings in this world, God, the Wise One. From the insight of His Righteousness He, who hath appointed all things, knows that what He utters is true; yea, I will declare Him the Source of the toiling Good Mind within us. So, through good deeds, our Piety is His. Not to be deceived is the all-viewing Lord.

5 Yea, thus I will declare that which the most bountiful One told me, that word which is the best to be heeded by mortals. They who therein grant me obedient attention, upon them cometh Weal to bless, and Immortality, and in the deeds of the Good Mind cometh the Lord's favour.

6 Aye, thus I will declare forth Him who is of all the greatest, praising Him through my righteousness, I who strive to do aright, together with all who do aright. Let God, the Wise Lord, hear with His bounteous spirit, in whose homage what I asked was asked with the Good Mind. Aye, let Him exhort me through His wisdom, which is ever the best.

7 Yea, I will declare Him whose blessings the offerers will seek, those who are living now as well as those who have lived aforetime, as will those also who are coming hereafter. Yea, even the souls of the righteous will desire them in the eternal Immortality. Those things they will desire which are blessings to the righteous but woes to the wicked. And these hath God, the Wise Lord, established through His kingdom, He, the Creator of all.

8 Him in our hymns of homage and of praise would I faithfully serve, for now I know Him clearly, through my righteousness, as Lord of the good spirit, of word and action, Him who is God, the Wise Lord. And to Him, not here alone but in His home of song, Paradise, His praise we shall bear.

9 Yea, Him with our better Mind we seek to honour, who, desiring good, shall draw near to us with His grace, to bless in weal and sorrow. May He, God, the Wise Lord, make us vigorous through His royal power, to further our flocks and men in thrift, from the good support and bearing of His Good Mind, itself born in us by His Righteousness.

10 Him in the acts of worship of our Piety we seek to praise with homage, who in His persistent energy was famed to be in truth the Lord, the Wise God, for He hath appointed in His kingdom, through His holy Order and His Good Mind, both Weal and Immortality, to grant the eternal mighty pair to this our land and to the creation.

11 Him would we magnify and praise who hath despised the false gods and the alien men, them who before held Him in their derision. Far different are these from him who gave Him honour. This latter one, through the bountiful Faith of the Saviour, is likewise a lord of saving power, a friend and brother to us; and to us, O Wise Lord, Thou art Guardian and Protector.