1. O you in whose hands lies my life
I implore you, I implore you spare me

2. And when my friends came to visit me
And saw me nearing my grave

3. My condition made them all weep
When they saw me as they saw me

4. And they wished to comfort my heart
But God did not fulfill that wish

5. Yet soon, God fulfilled
My beloved came, the light of my eyes

6. My thoughts about you were true
And now, by God, my thoughts were wrong