Plain text of The Gatha Spenta Mainyu · Visparad IX
1 I desire to offer my homage and my praise to God for the offered Haomas and offerings, and for those also which shall yet be offered, which smite victoriously, and are foes of hatred, and following in company, as they do, with the healing virtues of sanctity, following also in company with those of religious knowledge, and with the remedies of the Wise Lord, and with those of Zarathustra and the Zarathustrotema, (2) and for the offered Haomas and offerings which accompany those remedies which belong to the holy disciple well versed in good devices, and accompanying those of the itinerant also versed in good devices, and accompanying those likewise of the good faith of those who worship the Wise Lord, and those of the pious and beneficent prayer for blessings, and of the pious and good veracity, and of the pious word against unbelief, (3) for information and explanation, for preparation and devotion, for the libation and complete offering, for the complete recital of the liturgy memorised as well; and for those Haomas which are pungent, bounteous, holy, and offered with sanctity and for a blessing, for those which are yet to be offered with sanctity, and which are now being celebrated, and which are likewise in the future to be celebrated, for those which are being pressed with sanctity, and for those which are yet to be pressed, to these I desire to approach, and to express my homage and my praise to God. 4. And I desire to express my homage and my praise to God for the strength of the strong, and the victorious blow of the mighty, the powerful Rectitude and Blessedness, for Justice and Priority for the powerful Ascendency, and for these powerful angels who are the Bountiful Immortals, who rule aright, and dispose of all aright, ever-living, ever-helpful, who, male and female, dwell together with the Good Mind, to these I desire in my homage and my praises to approach; (5) yea, I desire to approach for homage and praises toward our Universal Weal and Immortality, the body of the cattle, and the soul of the cattle. And I desire to approach the fire of the spoken name, His sign, and toward that farm-house which is sanctified and which has fields and comfort, and mercy for the poor; (6) as a praiser with praise for the worship and homage, which is this praise of the Wise Lord, of the Bountiful Immortals, and of the holy and lofty Lord, for the worship and homage of the Lord that most attains His ends, and which is this praise of that blessedness which has approached us, and of that well-timed prayer for blessings offered in worship, (7) which is likewise the praise of the bountiful word of reason, and of the religion of those who worship the Wise Lord, and the Praises of the Yasnas, which is also that of all the signs of the order of worship, and of all the well-timed prayers for blessings, for the worship, homage, propitiation, and glorification of the entire creation of the holy and the clean.