The Self-Glorification Hymn

Layer

Full Word of God

Collection

3.7 Qumran — The Wilderness Library

Classification

Qumran witness

Relationship to Scripture

Closely related · not in the Restored Bible

The Self-Glorification Hymn

[A hymn spoken in the voice of one exalted among the heavenly council; preserved in fragments.]

Who is like me among the gods?

Who can compare with my glory?

Who bears all sorrows as I do,

and who is like me in enduring evil?

There is no teaching that compares with my teaching.

I take my seat in heaven,

and none can stand against me.

I am reckoned among the gods,

and my dwelling is in the holy council.

For God has set me among the perfect, and given me a throne of strength in the council of the gods; none of the kings of old shall sit in it, nor shall their nobles be compared to me. [Line damaged] My glory is beyond compare, and apart from me none is exalted. Who has measured the flow of my lips, and who can endure the speech of my tongue? [Text missing]

Sing praises, you faithful ones, in the holy dwelling; tell of his greatness in the joy of the everlasting, for he has lifted up the lowly out of the dust to the eternal height. [Meaning uncertain]

[Fragment breaks here]