1 Thee, verily, O Thunder-wielding Mighty One, all the angels here, the Helpers swift to listen, and both the worlds elected, Thee the Mighty, High, waxen strong, alone to slaughter the obstructor.

2 The angels, as worn with toil, relaxed their efforts: Thou, born of truth, wast Sovereign Ruler. Thou slewest the Serpent who besieged the waters, and duggest out their all-supporting channels.

3 The insatiate one, extended, hard to waken, who slumbered in perpetual sleep, O Mighty One, the Dragon stretched against the seven prone rivers, where no joint was, Thou rentest with Thy thunder.

4 The Mighty One with might shook earth and her foundation as the wind stirs the water with its fury. Striving, with strength He burst the firm asunder, and tore away the summits of the mountains.

5 They ran to Thee as mothers to their offspring: the clouds, like chariots, hastened forth together. Thou didst refresh the streams and force the billows: Thou, O Mighty One, settest free obstructed rivers.

6 Thou for the sake of Vayya and Turviti didst stay the great stream, flowing, all-sustaining: yea, at their prayer didst check the rushing river and make the floods easy to cross, O Mighty One.

7 He let the young maids skilled in Law, unwedded, like fountains, bubbling, flow forth streaming onward. He inundated thirsty plains and deserts, and milked the dry cows of the mighty Master.

8 Through many a morn and many a lovely autumn, having slain the obstructor, He set free the rivers. The Mighty One hath set at liberty to wander on earth the streams encompassed, pressed together.

9 Lord of Bay Steeds, Thou broughtest from the ant-hill the unwedded damsel's son whom ants were eating: the blind saw clearly, as he grasped the serpent, rose, brake the jar: his joints again united.

10 To the wise man, O Sage and Sovereign Ruler, the man who knoweth all Thine ancient exploits, hath told these deeds of might as Thou hast wrought them, great acts, spontaneous, and to man's advantage.

11 Now, O Mighty One! lauded, glorified with praises, let powers swell high, like rivers, for the singer. For Thee a new hymn, Lord of Bays! is fashioned. May we, car-borne, through song be victors ever.