Y. 49:12. What aids of grace hast Thou for Thine invoking Zarathushtra, O God the Wise Lord, to grant him through Thy righteous Order? Yea, what aids of grace hast Thou for me, as through Thy Good Mind given within my soul, for me who will still pray to Thee with praises, O Great Creator, beseeching what in accordance with Your wished-for aim is best?

Y. 50:1. Aye, doth my soul indeed obtain assisting grace, and which of Thy blessings is that gift to me, O Lord? What saving champion is found to save both flocks and herds? And who for myself other than Thy righteous Order, and Thyself, O Wise Lord? Tell me, O ye invoked ones! Or what of grace is there for me save Thy Best Mind itself?

2 And if Thy guardian is verily to save our wealth, how shall he obtain, and by what means shall he seek after, that joy-creating Cow, who is the living symbol of our peace? How shall that man obtain his wish who shall desire to see her provided with pastures for the welfare of this land? That only way is righteousness. Do Thou then grant me lands, so would I ask of Thee, which live in justice in the many splendours of the sun, and lands which openly thus live, and which are to be sought and gained by me as conquests for the cause. Give Thou this gift!

3 Yea, let that joy-creating one be his possession through the righteous Order which he helps to bring, that living sign which the most valiant citizen may give to him, at once reward and charge, and in accordance with Thy sovereign authority. May that heroic settler grant him this gift, he who may make the last imperilled farm to flourish in the vigour of Thy blessed prosperity, the tract which lies nearest to the fields which our foeman holds as his.

4 And therefore, both in thankfulness and hope, will I give sacrifice to You with praises, O Wise Lord, together with Thy Order and Thy Best Mind in Thy saints, and in accordance with Thy sacred sovereign power, by whose help the wisher, heaven-bound, may stand upon the certain pathway, and in Thine Abode of Song shall I, by means of these my prayers offered here, there hear the praises of Thy saints who offer and who see Thy favour.

5 And we are in readiness as well to fulfil Your praises and declare Your words, O Wise Lord, through Your grace and in accordance with Your holy Order, since Ye advance with friendliness to cheer the speaker of Your sacred word with open acts of visible relief, as if with hand sent forth, whereby that speaker of Your truth may bring us on, and settle us, in weal and bliss.

6 Therefore will I incite him to his task the more. Let him indeed proclaim the righteous way, he who already lifts his voice in sacred words, O Wise Lord, he, Zarathushtra, the faithful friend in accordance with the holy Order, and with self-abasing worship, giver of understanding for this land, voice-guider of the way to glory; let him indeed proclaim and teach my regulations, and in accordance with Thy Good Mind as his law.

7 And together with that chief speaker of Your word I would engage yet others in the cause. Your well-incited and swift servants, O Lord, would I yoke on as steeds to take their holy course toward heaven, gaining thereby at last the Bridges where Your adoration rules and is complete. Yea, I yoke on Your mighty ones, with Thy holy Order and Thy Good Mind. And with these may Ye drive on; aye, be Ye for my help!

8 And as I yoke on Your speakers for their course, then would I myself approach You in the highest deed of worship, and with these sacred metric verses of Zarathushtra and his peers, those which are heard and famed afar, as the verses of zealous worship, and with my hands stretched out in supplicating prayer. Yea, You would I approach, O Wise Lord, in union with Your sacred truth, and with the homage of a freely-giving helper, and with the good virtue of Your Good Mind in my soul.

9 Yea, with these prayers of Your sacrifice would I approach You, praising You in answer to Your mercies, O Lord, and Thou, O Righteousness, in the holy actions of Your Good Mind as he moves within us, so long indeed as I shall have the power, commanding at my will over this my sacred privilege and gift. And doing as the wise man thus, may I like him become a supplicant who gains his ends.

10 Mine every wish and prayer is this: then therefore whatsoever I shall do, and whatsoever deeds of worship and truth I shall yet further do on account of, and to make full, these prior deeds of worship, yea, whatsoever holy works shine bright as having worth in all men's eyes through Thy Good Mind, whose character they share; these, as the stars, the sun, and the dawn which brings on the light of days, are all, through their righteous Order, the speakers of Thy praise, O Thou Great Giver, Lord!

11 Your praiser then, by eminence, would I be named, and more, would be it, so long as by Thine inspiring Righteousness I am thus able and may have the power. And may the Maker of the world give help through His implanted Good Mind in my fellow-servants. And may that all be done to further us which through His veritable grace is most promotive for the cause!