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Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter XXVIII
Ancient Egyptian trans. P. Le Page Renouf & E. Naville • c. c. 1550 BCE
1.
I am Unbu, and what I abominate is the block of execution
2.
Let not this Whole Heart of mine be torn from me by the divine Champions in Heliopolis!
3.
O thou who clothest Osiris and hast seen Sutu
4.
O thou who turnest back after having smitten him, and hast accomplished the overthrow
5.
This Whole Heart of mine remaineth weeping over itself in presence of Osiris
6.
Its strength proceedeth from him, it hath obtained it by prayer from him
7.
I have had granted to it and awarded to it the glow of heart at the hour of the god of the Broad Face, and have offered the sacrificial cakes in Hermopolis
8.
Let not this Whole Heart of mine be torn from me. It is I who entrust to you its place, and vehemently stir your Whole Hearts towards it in Sechit-hotepit and the years of triumph over all that it abhors and taking all provisions at thine appointed time from thine hand after thee
9.
And this Whole Heart of mine is laid upon the tablets of Tmu, who guideth me to the caverns of Sutu and who giveth me back my Whole Heart which hath accomplished its desire in presence of the divine Circle which is in the Netherworld
10.
The sacrificial joint and the funereal raiment, let those who find them bury them