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1. My God, to Thee I complain of a soul
commanding to evil, rushing to offenses,
eager to disobey Thee, and exposing itself to Thy anger. It takes me on
the roads of disasters, it makes me the easiest of perishers before Thee;
many its pretexts, drawn out its expectations; when evil touches it, it is
anxious, when good touches it, grudging; inclining to sport and diversion,
full of heedlessness and inattention, it hurries me to misdeeds and makes
me delay repentance.
2. My God, I complain to Thee of an enemy who
misguides me and a satan who leads me astray. He has filled my breast with
tempting thoughts, and his suggestions have encompassed my heart. He
supports caprice against me, embellishes for me the love of this world,
and separates me from obedience and proximity!
3 My God, to Thee I complain of a heart that
is hard, turned this way and that by tempting thoughts, clothed in rust
and the seal, and of an eye too indifferent to weep in fear of Thee and
eagerly seeking that which gladdens it!
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4 .My God, there is no force and no strength
except in Thy power, and no deliverance for me from the detested things of
this world save through Thy preservation. So I ask Thee by Thy
far-reaching wisdom and Thy penetrating will not to let me expose myself
to other than Thy munificence and not to turn me into a target for trials!
Be for me a helper against enemies, a coverer of shameful things and
faults, a protector against afflictions, a preserver against acts of
disobedience! By Thy clemency and mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful! |
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