Plain text of The Gatha Spenta Mainyu · Yasna 49 (continued)
3 But all is not yet lost. For this religious choice, our holy creed, for which our last battle has been fought, O Wise Lord, Thy blessed Order, our guardian help, has been set to save and bless us. And for the evil judge, the Demon of the Lie, wounds are set. Therefore do I pray the more for the sheltering leadership of Thy Good Mind within our people and our commanders. And all the allies of the wicked I abjure.
4 They who with evil scheme and will cherish and help on the wrath of rapine, and with her envy, not by silent favour but with their very tongues, whose will and wish run not with good but with evil deeds, these settle and support the false powers of evil in their strength, and not the Lord. It is the wicked one's faith and insight to do so; their faith is the perverted.
5 But he, O Wise Lord, is our abundance and our fatness, who will dare these unbelieving foes and guard the faith against that envious wrath, with the power of the Good Mind. For every man of piety is a wise citizen in accordance with the holy Order, and so are all who are in truth within Thy Realm, O Lord.
6 And now I will beseech of You, O Wise Lord, and Righteousness, within Thy sacred word, speak to tell me what lies within Your will's intention, that, having discerned Your insight as the enlightened ever must, I may discern aright how we can herald forth those truths, and that pure faith with them, which is the faith of Him who is Thyself, O Lord.
7 And as we speak it forth, taught by Righteousness, then let the zealous citizen give heed, and with Thy Good Mind, O God the Wise Lord. Yea, let him give ear in accordance with the dictate of the holy Order, and do Thou hear alike as well. Who shall be the ally, and who the kinsman-lord himself, who, with his gifts and his rules of law, shall institute and settle for the serving multitude a worthy praise of God?
8 And I do not ask in vain, for such a one is found for us, and near at hand. To Frashaoshtra Thou hast given that most favouring guardian power, the headship of the holy Order for us, O Lord. This therefore would I pray of Thee, to confirm to him that gracious gift, and for myself likewise would I now seek that sheltering headship which is within Thy Realm; yea, most blessed and foremost may we both for ever be within it.
9 Aye, let the zealous and thrifty husbandman, so formed for giving help and blessings, give heed and listen when I call, O Wise Lord. Let not the truthful tiller, he who hears and speaks Thy word, be he who takes that sheltering chieftainship together with the wicked. Let the believing natures only join in that best recompense. And thus in the course of the holy Order are joined those two, Jamaspa and the hero.
10 And since these champions thus join in that reward, therefore will I place as well in Thy protection Thy Good Mind in the living, and the spirits of the dead. Yea, I confide our self-humbling praises, which we offer unto Thee, by which Thy Piety exists among us, and likewise sacrificing zeal. And this would we do to further Thy great sovereign power among Thy people, and with undying strength.
11 But as to faithless reprobates, the souls of the evil dead shall meet those evil men who serve their evil rulers, who speak with evil words and harbour evil consciences. These souls in Hell shall come with evil food to welcome them, and in the abode of the Lie their dwelling verily shall be!