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11. "'I have passed the night watching; I am become as a sparrow alone on the roof.
12. "'My enemies have reviled me all the day long, and they who honour me, have

injured me.
13. "'For I have eaten ashes instead of my bread and mixed my drink with tears,
14. "'Because of thy wrath and thy rage; for thou hast lifted me up and cast me
down.
15. "'My days have declined as a shadow, and I am dried up as the grass,
16. "'But thou, O Lord, thou endurest for ever, and thy remembrance unto the

generation of generation[s].
17. "'Arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time is come to have mercy upon her;
the proper time is come.
18. "'Thy servants have longed for her stones, and will take pity on her land.

19. "'And the nations will have fear of the name of the Lord, and the kings of the
earth have fear of thy sovereignty.
20. "'For the Lord will build up Zion and reveal himself in his sovereignty.
21. "’He hath regarded the prayer of the humble and hath not despised their
supplication.
22. "'This shall be recorded for another generation, and the people who shall be

created will praise the Lord.
23. "'Because he hath looked down on his holy height; the Lord hath looked down
from the heaven on the earth,
24. "'To hear the sighing of those in chains, to loose the sons of those who are slain,

25. "'To proclaim the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem.'
26. "This, my Lord, is the solution of the mystery of the repentance which Pistis
Sophia hath uttered."

CHAPTER 41
1. It came to pass then, when John had finished speaking these words to Jesus in the midst
of his disciples, that he said unto him: "Well said, John, the Virgin, who shalt rule in the

kingdom of the Light."
2. And Jesus continued again in the discourse and said unto his disciples: "It came to pass
again thus the emanations of Self-willed again oppressed Pistis Sophia in the chaos and
desired to take from her her whole light; and not yet was her commandment
accomplished, to lead her out of the chaos, and not yet had the command reached me
through the First Mystery, to save her out of the chaos.

3. It came to pass then, when all the material emanations of Self-willed oppressed her,
that she cried out and uttered the fifth repentance, saying: