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11. "'For my years have wasted away in sadness and my life is wasted in sighing. My
power is enfeebled in misery and my bones are distracted.

12. "'I am become a mockery for all my foes and my neighbours. I am become a
fright for my acquaintances, and they who saw me, are fled away from me.
13. "'I am forgotten in their heart as a corpse, and I have become as a ruined vessel.
14. "'For I have heard the scorn of many who encompass me round about. Massing
themselves together against me, they took counsel to take away my soul from
me.

15. "'But I have trusted in thee, O Lord. I said: Thou art my God.
16. "'My lots are in thy hands. Save me from the hand of my foes and free me from
my persecutors.
17. "'Reveal thy face over thy slave, and free me according to thy grace, O Lord.

18. "'Let me not be put to shame, for I have cried unto, thee. Let the impious be put
to shame and turn towards hell.
19. "'Let the crafty lips be struck dumb, which allege iniquity against the righteous in
pride and scorn.'"

CHAPTER 50
1. And when Jesus had heard these words, he said: "Finely [said], Matthew.

2. Now, therefore, amēn, I say unto you: When the perfect number is completed and the
universe is raised hence, I will take my seat in the Treasury of the Light, and ye
yourselves will sit on twelve light-powers, until we have restored all the orders of the
twelve saviours to the region of the inheritances of every one of them."
3. And when he had said this, he said: "Understand ye what I say?"

4. Mary came forward and said: "O Lord, concerning this matter thou hast said to us
aforetime in similitude: 'Ye have awaited with me in the trials, and I will bequeath unto
you a kingdom, as my Father hath bequeathed it unto me, that ye may eat and drink at
my table in my kingdom; and ye shall sit on twelve thrones and judge the twelve tribes

of Israel.'"
5. He said unto her: "Well said, Mary."

6. Jesus continued again and said unto his disciples: "It came to pass then thereafter, when
the emanations of Self-willed oppressed Pistis Sophia in the chaos, that she uttered the
ninth repentance, saying:

7. "'O Light, smite down them who have taken away my power from me, and take
away the power from them who have taken away mine from me.