Text for the Yeongbo rite held at Singyeok Hall to pray away portents in the heavens, with an offering rite joined to it神格殿。行天變祈禳靈寶道場兼醮禮文。
天不言以喩。蓋指象之甚明。道善貸且成。尙沖靈之可扣。眷惟不穀。叨襲丕基。夙夜以求以思。雖勤於臨政。貌言作肅作乂。未協於敍倫。比聞日御之告災。無奈月行之失度。與熒惑歲星而同舍。不其異乎。入旄頭羽林以交綏。亦可懼也。況金曜之猛怒。逼大微之巍峨。遂卽西蕃。突于大將。觸曰犯居曰守。豈惟椷劍之間。食不甘寢不安。玆軫履氷之懍。庶憑陰相。終杜禍胎。佇九霄之列眞。敬邀泠馭。集三景之高第。朗詠靈篇。仍峙仙壇。式陳法醮。幸諒傾輸之懇。曲加保佑之私。軌道無差。五緯若連珠而表瑞。戢兵不用。四方如接堵以致寧。
Heaven awakens us without speaking, and for the most part the shapes by which it points and shows are exceedingly bright; and the Way lends well and also brings to completion, so that the hidden divine power may yet be knocked upon.
Looking back, I who am without virtue have presumptuously succeeded to this great ground. From early morning until night I have sought and pondered, and though I was indeed diligent in government, my bearing and speech were not grave enough nor my rule ordered enough to accord with the setting forth of due sequence.
Of late I heard the sun give notice of calamity, and then, past helping, the going of the moon lost its degrees. Mars and Jupiter entered one station — how should that not be strange? — and they went into the Mao star and the Urim star and withdrew from one another, which likewise is to be dreaded. Still more, Venus grew fiercely angry and pressed hard upon the height of the Taemi enclosure, and at last advanced to the western paling and butted against the Senior General star. When it grazes they call it trespass, and when it halts they call it keeping guard; how should this be a matter merely of the space within a scabbard? I eat and it is not sweet, I sleep and I am not at ease, and so I ache with the dread of one treading upon ice. Leaning upon the help that men do not see, I would at last block the sprouting of calamity.
I await the True Ones ranged through the nine heavens and reverently welcome the cool car; and I gather the exalted Daoist masters who have refined the three lights to chant the divine writings aloud and clear. Then I raise high the altar of the immortals and set forth the lawful offering rite.
I pray that you look upon the earnestness I pour out as one tipping a vessel, and bend down to add the grace of your protection and help. Let the stars not stray from their roads, so that the five planets show forth the auspicious sign of beads strung on a thread; and let the soldiers be gathered in and not used, so that the four quarters come to a peace as of walls joined one to another.
Interlinear notes 1
漢書注云椷函也
A note to the Hanshu says, "椷 is the same character as 函, which means a scabbard."