1 I drive the evil powers hence; I confess as a worshipper of the Wise Lord of the order of Zarathushtra, estranged from the evil powers, devoted to the lore of the Lord, a praiser of His bountiful gifts; and to God the Wise Lord, the good and endowed with good possessions, I attribute all things good, to the holy One, the resplendent, to the glorious, whose are all things whatsoever which are good; whose is the Cow, whose is Righteousness, the righteous order pervading all things pure, whose are the stars, in whose lights the glorious beings and objects are clothed.

2 And I choose Piety, the bounteous and the good, mine may she be. And therefore I loudly deprecate all robbery and violence against the sacred Cow, and all drought to the wasting of the villages of the believers.

3 Away from their thoughts do I wish to lead the thought of wandering at will, away the thought of free nomadic pitching of the tent, for I wish to remove all wandering from their cattle which abide in steadfastness upon this land; and bowing down in worship to God, the Righteous, I dedicate my offerings with praise so far as that. Never may I stand as a source of wasting, never as a source of withering to the villages of the believers, not for the love of body or of life.

4 Away do I abjure the shelter and headship of the evil powers, evil as they are; aye, utterly bereft of good, and void of virtue, deceitful in their wickedness, of all beings those most like the Demon of the Lie, the most loathsome of existing things, and the ones the most of all bereft of good.

5 Off, off, do I abjure the evil powers and all possessed by them, the sorcerers and all that hold to their devices, and every existing being of the sort; their thoughts do I abjure, their words and actions, and their seed that propagates their sin; away do I abjure their shelter and their headship, and the iniquitous of every kind who act as the wicked act!

Thus and so in very deed might God the Wise Lord have indicated to Zarathushtra in every question which Zarathushtra asked, and in all the consultations in which they two conversed together. 6. Thus and so might Zarathushtra have abjured the shelter and the headship of the evil powers in all the questions, and in all the consultations with which they two conversed together, Zarathushtra and the Lord.

And so I myself, in whatsoever circumstances I may be placed, as a worshipper of the Wise Lord, and of Zarathushtra's order, would so abjure the evil powers and their shelter, as he who was the holy Zarathushtra abjured them once of old.

7 To that religious sanctity to which the waters appertain, do I belong, to that sanctity to which the plants, to that sanctity to which the Cow of blessed gift, to that religious sanctity to which God the Wise Lord, who made both Cow and holy men, belongs, to that sanctity do I belong. Of that creed which Zarathushtra held, which King Vishtaspa, and those two, Frashaoshtra and Jamaspa; yea, of that religious faith which every Saviour who shall yet come to save us, the holy ones who do the deeds of real significance, of that creed and of that lore am I.

8 A worshipper of the Wise Lord I am, of Zarathushtra's order; so do I confess, as a praiser and confessor, and I therefore praise aloud the well-thought thought, the word well spoken, and the deed well done;

9 Yea, I praise at once the faith of the Wise Lord, the faith which has no faltering utterance, the faith that wields the felling halbert, the holy creed, which is the most imposing, best, and most beautiful of all religions which exist, and of all that shall in future come to knowledge, the Lord's faith, the creed of Zarathushtra. Yea, to God the Wise Lord do I ascribe all good, and such shall be the worship of the belief of the worshippers of the Wise Lord!