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4. "'Light of my salvation, I sing praise unto thee in the region of the height and
again in the chaos.

5. "'I sing praise unto thee in my hymn with which I sang praise in the height and
with which I sang praise unto thee when I was in the chaos. Let it come into thy
presence, and give heed, O Light, to my repentance.
6. "'For my power is filled up with darkness, and my light hath gone down into the
chaos.
7. "'I am myself become as the rulers of the chaos, who are gone into the

darknesses below; I am become as a material body, which hath no one in the
height who will save it.
8. "'I am become also as matters from which their power hath been taken, when
they are cast down into the chaos,--[matters] which thou hast not saved, and

they are condemned utterly by thy commandment.
9. "'Now, therefore, have they put me into the darkness below,--in darknesses and
matters which are dead and in them [is] no power.
10. "'Thou hast brought thy commandment upon me and all things which thou hast
decreed.
11. "'And thy spirit hath withdrawn and abandoned me. And moreover by thy

commandment the emanations of my eon have not helped me and have hated
me and separated themselves from me, and yet am I not utterly destroyed.
12. "'And my light is diminished in me, and I have cried up to the light with all the
light in me, and I have stretched forth my hands unto thee.

13. "'Now, therefore, O Light, wilt thou not accomplish thy commandment in the
chaos, and will not the deliverers, who come according to thy commandment,
arise in the darkness and come and be disciples for thee'?
14. "'Will they not utter the mystery of thy name in the chaos?
15. "'Or will they not rather utter thy name in a matter of the chaos, in which thou
wilt not [thyself] purify?

16. "'But I have sung praises unto thee, O Light, and my repentance will reach unto
thee in the height.
17. "'Let thy light come upon me,
18. "'For they have taken my light, and I am in pain on account of the Light from the
time when I was emanated. And when I had looked into the height to the Light,

then I looked down below at the light-power in the chaos; I rose up and went
down.
19. "'Thy commandment came upon me, and the terrors, which thou didst decree
for me, have brought me into delusion.
20. "'And they have surrounded me, in numbers as water, they have laid hold on me

together all my time.