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Kebra Nagast

The Queen of Sheba and her Son Menyelet in Him. And again he prophesied and said, " Be strong ye weak hands and tired knees, and rejoice ye hearts that are cast down, for God hath come, Who shall requite our debt, and save us. And He shall open the eyes of the blind, and He shall make the ears of the deaf to hear, and the feet that are lame shall run, and the tongues of the dumb shall speak." 1 These words are spoken in respect of those who err in worshipping and those who are dead in sin, and those whose hearts are darkened, and of you who do not know that idols, God created you. Rejoice ye this day : He hath come Who will redeem the sin of Adam, and make Adam's debt His own. He was crucified being sinless. He hath killed Death by means of His own death, and the blind see, and the lame walk, and the deaf hear, and the dumb speak unhaltingly, and besides all these things the dead are raised. This is the meaning of this prophecy. Thus David the Prophet prophesied and said, " God shall come in visible form, and our God will not keep silence." 2 Thus Jeremiah prophesied and said, " God shall come down upon the earth, and shall walk about with men like us." 3 Thus Ezekiel the Prophet prophesied and said, " I your God will come, and I will walk about among them, and they shall know Me that I am their God." Thus David prophesied and said, " Blessed is He Who cometh in the name of God we have blessed you in the 4 : Name of the Lord." 5 Thus Habakkuk prophesied and said, " God shall come from the South, and the Holy One from Mount Faran and from the cities of Judah." 6 28 2 Psalm 1, 3. 1 Isaiah xxxv, 3 ff. 3 Leviticus xxvi, 12 ; Zechariah ii, 10. 4 Compare Jeremiah ; 5 xxxii, 38 ; Ezekiel xi, 17, 20; 2 Corinthians vi, 16. Psalms cxviii, 26 ; cxxix, 8. 2O2 Habakkuk iii, 3. xxxvi, 27,

E. A. W. Budge, The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (Kebra Nagast), London 1922 — uploaded facsimile