The Hebrew of 4Q449, line by line as Qimron prints it. The English translation, printed with this same Hebrew, is on the page Penitential Prayer.

Source Text: תפילה (4Q449)

The Hebrew as printed in Qimron, vol. 3, p. 189. Square brackets enclose gaps and Qimron's restorations. ◦ marks an illegible letter. A dot above a letter (ׄ) marks a damaged letter read with confidence, a small circle above (֯) a doubtful reading, and a bar above (̄) a letter that could also be read as a similar one. Line numbers follow the edition. The upright stroke ׀ in fragment 1, line 5 marks two words written joined, without a space.

קטע 1

1 [ ]וׄגׄוׄמל חׄס֯ד֯ כׄטובכהׄ[ ]

2 [מימי אבו]תׄינו ועד היום הזה[ ]

3 [ ]מׄמשלת רוחי גורלו במשרׄת֯[ אשמתו ]

4 [ ]קנאת משפטיׄ אמתכה ונקמתׄ[ אפכה ]

5 [ כ]ול אויבינו וׄ[ל]ה֯[א]בׄידׄ אׄתׄ׀כול ש֯[ונאינו ]

6 [ מתוע]בׄי נפׄשנׄוׄ[ ]◦ ◦[ ]

קטע 3

1 [ ]בל֯הׄבׄי אש ◦[ ]

2 [ ]הׄנועדים [ ]

3 [ ]◦אלוהינו אׄ[ ]

4 [ ]◦◦◦◦[ ]

Source Colophon

Transcribed from the rendered page of the CC BY 4.0 composite edition (Zenodo, 2020) of Elisha Qimron, The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Hebrew Writings, vol. 3 (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2015), p. 189. Qimron's introduction: three fragments in a hand from the Herodian period; he titles the text "Prayer" (tefillah) and prints fragments 1 and 3. First edition: Esther Chazon, DJD XXIX, pp. 391–393.

Qimron's notes, in brief:

• Fragment 1, line 1: "and who renders kindness" is a new reading; for its matter and language compare the Community Rule 1:24 – 2:9 (vol. 1, pp. 213–214). "According to your goodness" may also be read "in your goodness", as Chazon proposes in her notes.
• Fragment 1, line 2: "[from the days of our fa]thers" is a new reading, made from photograph 42.916 and after Ezra 9:7, "From the days of our fathers we have been in great guilt until this very day."
• Fragment 1, line 3: "in the service of [his guilt]" is a new reading, after the War Scroll 13:4 (vol. 1, p. 124); Chazon, in her notes, proposes reading "in judgment".
• Fragment 1, line 5: the restoration is new.
• Fragment 1, line 6: "[those abhor]red" is a new reading; compare Psalm 107:18, "They abhorred all food" (literally, "their soul abhorred"). Ariel and Yuditsky propose restoring "[the enem]ies of our soul".

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