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Plain text of A Hymn to God (Amen-Ra)

§I. Beautiful is God, the Beloved, giving all life and warmth to all beautiful cattle.

§II. Hail to Thee, O God, Lord of the Throne of the Two Lands!

First One in the Apts (Karnak),

First One of His pasture.

Extended of stride, first One of the Land of the South,

Lord of the Nubians, Governor of Punt,

Lord of heaven, the First of earth,

Lord of the things which are, stablisher of creation, stablisher of all creation.

§III. One, through His unrivalled powers, Sovereign over all,

Lord of Truth,

Maker of men, creator of beasts,

Lord of the things that are, creator of the plant of life (wheat),

Maker of green plants, making the cattle to live.

§IV. The angels ascribe praises to Him.

Maker of things below and of things above, illumining the land,

Sailing over the heavens in peace.

King whose word is true, Chief of the Two Lands,

Great of power, Lord of awe,

Chief, who made the earth,

Dispenser of destinies more than any other.

§IX. Casting down His enemy into the flame,

His power overthrows the rebellious devils;

It makes the serpent fiend vomit what he has swallowed.

§X. Hail to Thee, O God, Lord of Truth!

Hidden One, Lord of all.

He sent out the Word, and the angels came into being;

Creator of men,

Making different their characters and forms, making their life,

Distinguishing by their skins one from the other.

§XI. He hearkeneth to the groan of the afflicted,

Being gracious to him that crieth to Him,

Delivering the timid man from the bully,

Judging between the oppressor and the helpless one.

§XV. One Alone, maker of everything that is,

Maker of the things that are.

Men proceed from His will,

The angels come into being by His utterance;

Maker of green herbs, Vivifier of the cattle,

The staff of life of all beings,

Making the fish to live in the river,

And the geese in the sky,

Giving air to the creature in the egg,

Making feathered fowl to live,

Making the khennur birds to live,

And creeping things and insects likewise,

Providing food for the mice in their holes,

And making the birds to live on every branch.

§XIX. One Alone, without a second.