Address to the Lord


My Lord — do for him, for my father.


(Fragment 1 preserves two partial lines. Lines beyond this are too lacunose for translation.)


Line 1:

[...] My Lord, for my father, do for him [...]


Line 2:

[...] in that which has been [...]


Source Text

Hebrew source text: Address to the Lord — Source Text

Colophon

Source: 4Q526, one Cave 4 Hebrew fragment; primary publication DJD XXII (García Martínez, Tigchelaar, and Van der Woude, 1998). Transcription from the Qimron Composite Edition (Elisha Qimron, Zenodo, CC BY 4.0), decoded via Miqdas font mapping. Two partial lines only; no continuous text survives. Genre: possibly petition or testament.

Translation: Good Works translation project with AI-assisted drafting and editorial review, Mar 2026.


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