1. O my savior, though calamities make me their drink
And the sender of my concerns redoubles their dispatch

2. My tongue is silenced from thanking your hands
While you are above any praise I may utter

3. You have borne for me every peril that harms me
And sustained my life though its wickedness was evident

4. You ransomed, O trustee of brotherly devotion
Heedless of absence, the scattering of affection

5. Forgetful of what passes, no matter how long its term
Attached to whom you love, no matter how long their stay

6. Nor do I complain of longing for you out of patience
Though it is the confusion of my heart and its pouring forth

7. And my heart divided me upon patience from you
No wonder, after you, its breach appeared

8. Still your guardian brings it inclining toward you
And the perfidy of fate's turns calls it from you

9. And shared with me in it your love, so its reasoning
And thoughts are with me and with you their dwelling

10. Nor did calamities shake me, though I
Am as you know the human race to be in woes and their mayhem

11. Bold toward terrors, and death a restrainer
Bitter of powers, and time's betrayal appeared

12. Oppressive in rage that narrows the breast
Yet I, though my forbearance seems lasting, do not vent it

13. Nor did I inherit excellent patience out of weariness
Rather, it is from an enlightener to me, its legacy

14. From the excellent, the epochs of time have resembled
No good in them but from him, and their rot

15. A spring hailed him, reviving people, its freshening
When the bleak one leaves, his malodorousness passes

16. His perfection doubles the sickness of enviers
Though it heals the disease with its breath