Kebra Nagast

The Queen talks to the Children of Israel God, and the guides of the commandment of the God of Israel, and the men of the house of God, and the guardians of Zion, the Tabernacle of the Law of God, and we do not wish to transgress your commandments, for ye shall be unto us a guide to the path of God away from ah evil. At your words we will withdraw from that wherewith God is not well-pleased, and we will draw nigh unto every good thing wherewith God is well-pleased at your commandment. Only do ye instruct all this people, and teach them the words of 1 knowledge, for never before have they heard such things as they have heard this day. It is only those who have in them that wisdom and understanding understanding illumine like the light of the sun. As for me, up to this present I have not drunk deeply of the water of knowledge. Now it is sweeter than honey, and quencheth the thirst more than wine, and it satisfieth and maketh wisdom to bubble up, and it stimulateth the understanding, and maketh a man to pour forth words drunken man, and maketh the unsteady man like one who flieth, and maketh a man as hot as he that carrieth a heavy load on a difficult road in a parched land that is burnt up by a blazing sun. When the hearts of the wise are open to prophecy and to knowledge, they do not fear the king because of the greatness of his glory if he turneth himself aside from the way of God. And mark this The word of the Law, which hath been uttered, is indeed understanding unto those who wish for it, and who drink it in and soak themselves like a : therein. I pray Thee, O Lord God of Israel, Thou Holiest of the Holy, grant unto me that I may follow wisdom, and may not become a castaway grant unto me that I may make her a wall unto myself, and may never fall down grant that I may make her a foundation for me, and may never be overthrown grant that I stand her as a may upon [firmly as] pillar, and may never shake that I hide in grant her, and never may ; ; ; ; 153