1. My God, support us with Your kindness, and heal us
From misery, and have mercy, we are miserable

2. You see, before this universe we were in another
And You were for us a Lord, and continuance was

3. Did we anger You there, so You exiled us
To the earth we suffer upon it and are humbled

4. And cast off its back into desolation
Where death conspired beneath it and perishing

5. Was not our misery above the soil enough
That misery follows us beneath the soil

6. As atonement for what we sinned before it
In ignorance, so forgive, we are ignorant

7. With a spirit You lodged within the body, it had
No home but there, the heavens

8. The body tortures it, its origin is dust
Within the soul a disease, and that is disease

9. Wandering the night that obscurity enveloped it
From the body the horizons pray to it

10. And how can it find solace lacking its light
For the moon cannot but give off light

11. Nor the flower if it loses its fragrance, nor hope
If afflictions come and desire dies

12. And adding to the soul's torment, You find
It guilty of a crime the foolish caused

13. Long ago, not those who came knowing
What came, or those in Your time who came

14. Time gave birth in us, and it is feeble
Its strength, and we are its weaklings

15. Pains persisted with us in an alien land
So have mercy my Lord, we are strangers