1 The good government of the Lord is to be chosen among all wished-for things as that lot which most of all brings on our happiness. Actions that oppress us it opposes, through the holy Order which pervades it, and with the pious zeal of its true servants. Therefore, O Great Creator, let me produce, and help bring on, that sovereign power which is the best for us at every present hour.

2 And first I will ask for these two blessings of Your own, O Thou Great Creator, and thou, His righteous Order; and I also ask of thee, our Piety; and grant me this Your sovereign rule over our desired wealth, to give and to preserve it; and likewise those spiritual blessings which are advantageous for our worship of the Lord through the inspiration of His Good Mind within the soul.

3 And it is not I alone who thus appeal to You; I speak for all who are guarded in the ceremonial and moral actions of Your law, and by those inspired words which proceed from the tongue of Thy Good Mind as he speaks within Thy sacred word. Yea, these are all assembling, each, to hear You, of whom Thou, O Wise Lord, art the foremost guide and light.

4 And they cry aloud to Thee, O Wise Lord, I speaking with them and in their name: Where is the promised lord of our thrift, the embodied law, saving us from the most dreaded dangers that we fear, the thrift-lord of our ready zeal? Where does he stand to show us mercy? Whither are Thy Righteousness and the Bountiful Piety approaching? From what direction comes Thy Best Mind to inspire and to guide? And whence again, O Great Creator, Thy sovereign power to be our ruler and defence?

5 And it is the tiller of the earth who asks this of Thee, O Lord, Thy chosen saint himself; he has asked this all of Thee, striving to discover how he may gain to himself the sacred Cow, and with her all wealth in herds beside. And he would seek this moved by the motives which flow from Thy righteous Order and Thy cause, upright as he is in actions, and wise in his self-humbling worship of that One who, as a righteous ruler, has appointed a just controlling guide for those whom He has made.

6 And in partial answer to his question, and to solve his doubt, I now declare the truth: He who gives to this good citizen that which is better than the good, yea, He who bestows on him in accordance with his religious choice, is our Lord, the Wise, and not a false power of evil. And this will He bestow through His divine authority, established in preparation here, while on the withholder of the sacrifice, who offers nothing to His cause, He will send worse than the evil, and that not here alone, but in the last turning of the creation in its course!

7 And as Thou wilt bestow thus graciously on him, so grant me also, O Thou most bountiful Spirit, Wise Lord, Thou who hast made both the Cow and the waters and the plants for her support, both immortality and welfare, those two eternal gifts, and through Thy Good Mind in the doctrine which is revealed through his inspired words.

8 Yea, grant me these two inseparable gifts, for having them in store I will speak for Thee, O Wise Lord, because to the man of understanding one should declare for Thee that which is woe to the wicked, but salvation to him who has maintained the holy Order in Thy people and in his soul. For he is repaid in his deed, and rejoiced, by the word that declares it to the wise.

9 And when I shall speak, I will declare for You that mental keenness which reaches the decision, and which Thou hast bestowed upon the two striving sides in Thy satisfying word. And this I will announce by means of Thy flaming Fire, Thy sign; yea, I will declare it for the bestowal of that sword of justice which is forged from steel and wrought for both the worlds. And for the wounding of the wicked with its blade, may Thou, O God the Wise Lord, bless and prosper Thine avenging saint!

10 Yea, let Thy believer wound the wicked to the quick, for he who, totally estranged from this our holy rule, O Wise Lord, seeks to destroy my life, is a son of the Lie's creation, and belongs to the miscreants; but as for me, I call on Righteousness, Thy Order, to be my help; and may he come with Thy good blessing.

11 And ye who throng the great assembly, it is of you I speak while, with my lips, I now address the Lord: Who, O Lord, is a loyal friend to the Spitama, to Zarathushtra? Who has asked his question of the divine Righteousness, as he approached? By whom is the bounteous Piety received and cherished? Or who has been regarded as upright and fitted for the great cause of Thy Good Mind?

12 Who is worthy? would I ask, for Zarathushtra was ever such, and from earliest days. He was no polluted wretch. No corrupter of boys gained his ear, nor follower of the tyrant rulers on this bridge of earth of temptation, when his body was maturely grown, when they both hastened to him with impure power.

13 And he will be likewise victorious on the veritable Bridge of Judgement, for the righteous man's conscience will truly crush the wicked man's spirit while his soul rages fiercely on the open Bridge, as he strives by his actions, and his tongue's cursing speech, to reach and to pollute the paths of Righteousness, where the faithful souls come.

14 And as are those lost spirits, so are our foes. No friends to the creatures are the corrupt priests, not granting complete harvests from the fields with complete pasture for the cattle, chief objects for our prayer, bringing woe by their deeds and their teachings. And they will deliver those whom they lead, at the last, by their doctrines, into the abode of the Lie.

15 But this is the reward which Zarathushtra declared before to his friends who counsel with Righteousness and are fitted for the cause: God the Wise Lord will come the first into His Abode of Song, and then these gifts will be given you by the Good Mind within you, and with blessings for the cause of the righteous Order among His hosts.

16 And one of you, the greatest, has indeed attained to that wisdom which is thus blessed with a promise: King Vishtaspa has reached it in the realm of our great cause of devotion, and moved in his toil by the chants of the Good Mind, who speaks in the sacred word; yea, he hath attained to that wisdom which the bountiful Lord conceived in accordance with Righteousness, thus to teach us salvation.

17 And not alone amidst our princes hath sanctity been marked: Frashaoshtra, the Hvogva, hath presented a blessed and an endeared form, his child; and may God the Wise Lord, who has the sovereign power, grant her to us, who is so much to be beloved. And for the progress of the good religion do ye, O ye people, receive her with desire, and for the gaining of Righteousness; she will help the great cause.

18 Yea, that holy wisdom, O Jamaspa the Hvogva, these pious throngs are choosing through their Righteousness as the true splendours of riches, these pious men who are gaining the kingdom where the Good Mind doth govern. And grant me also, O Wise Lord, that which these with glad wishes receive from Thy grace.

19 And this prayer is already and beforehand heard. This established sovereign power the heroic King Vishtaspa has given, O Maidhyomaha the Spitama. He who is wise through the religion, and who seeks the true life, he is granting it to us; yea, he has pronounced the laws of the Lord our Maker, and declared that which is for our life's actions beyond all other things best.

20 And that gift of blessedness for you, all the bountiful ones, the angels, with one consent in sympathy to help us are disposed to grant; and may they likewise make the holy Order firm for us through the Good Mind in our people; and may they reveal to us the words with which Piety likewise speaks her truths. And receiving sacrifice with homage from our praises, may they seek for us the grace of the Wise Lord.

21 Yea, this King Vishtaspa, the man of piety, is bounteous, and with understanding in his words and his actions. And as a reward may the Lord give him that righteousness which is blessed, but with the religion alone, and that sovereign power which is established through the Good Mind in His people. And this same blessing would I pray from His grace.

22 For God the Wise Lord knoweth the man whose best gift for the sacrifice is given unto me, and from the motive of righteousness; and in thankfulness for all, and in prayer for yet still further grace, I will give thanks for the righteous; yea, I will honour those who have ever lived, and who still live, in the Lord's name, and I will draw near with my praise to the rank that God has given them!