O Light, forget not my praise-singing.
2For Self-willed and his lion-faced power have opened their chops against me and have acted craftily against me.
3They have surrounded me, desiring to take away my power, and have hated me, because I have sung praises unto thee.
4Instead of loving me they slandered me. But I sang praises.
5They plotted a plot to take away my power, because I have sung to thee praises, O Light; and hated me, because I have loved thee.
6Let the darkness come over Self-willed, and let the ruler of the outermost darkness abide at his right hand.
7And when thou passest sentence, take from him his power; and the deed which he hath plotted, to take from me my light,--mayest thou take his from him.
8And may all his powers of his light in him finish, and let another of the three triple-powers receive his sovereignty.
9May all the powers of his emanation be lightless and may his matter be without any light in it.
10May his emanations remain in the chaos and not dare to go to their region. May their light in them die away and let them not go to the thirteenth aeon, their region.
11May the Receiver, the Purifier of the lights, purify all the lights which are in Self-willed, and take them from them.
12May the rulers of the lower darkness rule over his emanations, and let no one give them shelter in his region; and let no one hearken to the power of his emanations in the chaos.
13Let them take away the light in his emanations and blot out their name from the thirteenth aeon, yea rather take his name for ever out of that region.
14And on the lion-faced power let them bring the sin of him who emanated it, before the Light, and not wipe out the iniquity of the matter which hath brought him forth.
15And may their sin be altogether before the Light eternally, and may they let them not look beyond the chaos and take their names out of all regions;
16Because they have not spared me and have oppressed him whose light and whose power they have taken away, and also conformably with those who set me therein, they desired to take away my whole light from me.
17They loved to descend to the chaos; so let them abide therein, and they shall not be brought up therefrom from now on. They desired not the region of Righteousness for dwelling-place, and they shall not be taken thither from now on.
18He put on darkness as a garment, and it entered into him as water, and it entered in into all his powers as oil.
19Let him wrap himself into the chaos as into a garment, and gird himself with the darkness as with a leathern girdle for ever.
20But do thou, O Light, have mercy upon me for the sake of the mystery of thy name, and save me in the goodness of thy grace.
21For they have taken away my light and my power; and my power hath inwardly tottered, and I could not stand upright in their midst.
22I am become as matter which is fallen; I am tossed hither and thither as a demon in the air.
23My power hath perished, because I possess no mystery; and my matter hath become dwindled because of my light, for they have taken it away.
24And they mocked me; they looked at me, nodding at me.