Frag. 22 Col. ii (cf. 4Q175)
the man wh[o ...] ... [...]
asked, and ... [...]
Blessed be yhwh, God of [Israel ...]
God [...]
At the moment when Josh[ua] fi[nis]hed pra[ising and giving] thanks with [his] psalms, [he said:]
«Cu[rsed be the ma]n who re[bui]lds this [cit]y! Upon [his] first-born] [he will found it]
[and with his youngest son he will] erect its gates» Blank And [now, cursed be the man of Belial,]
[who rises to b]e a fowler’s trap for his people and ruin for all his neighbour[s]. And there will ari[se]
[...] to be the two instruments of violence. And they will rebuild
this [city,] and erect for it a rampart and towers, to make it [into a fortress of wickedness]
[in the country, and] a great [e]vil {amongst the sons of Jacob. And they will sh[ed blood]} /in Israel, and a horror in Ephraim [and Judah;]
[And they will commit a profanation] in the land and a great blasphemy ‹among the sons of Jacob. And they will shed blood› like wa[ter upon the ramparts of the daugh- ter of Zion]
[and in the precincts of Jerusalem.] ... [...]