May all who meet and sit in thee
Be in their speech at one with me (vii. 12, 2).
A few hymns consist of formulas for the expiation of sins, such as offering imperfect sacrifices and marrying before an elder brother, or contain charms for removing the defilement caused by ominous birds, and for banishing evil dreams.
If waking, if asleep, I have
Committed sin, to sin inclined,
May what has been and what shall be
Loose me as from a wooden post (vi. 115, 2).
A short hymn (vi. 120), praying for the remission of sins, concludes with this stanza:—
In heaven, where our righteous friends are blessèd,
Having cast off diseases from their bodies,