Sol 5.6

  1. O Ruler of all things in dominion and encompassing care,

    You direct them by decree according to Your will.

  2. You have charge of them, expanding and constricting, directing

    them as You choose, without assistance.

  3. Your command has sovereign power to take effect, with no hand

    opposing it and no partner in the decree.

  4. You alone direct every existent thing;

    no created being directs any affair in partnership.

  5. You are fully able in governance—in power,

    action, and direction—without any intermediary.

  6. What have I to do with planning, when the whole affair

    is Yours? I possess not from You even an atom’s weight.

  7. What worth has my planning, and what standing has my ability,

    when the direction of my nature is bound by a ruling from You?

  8. To relinquish my planning is a sure path;

    my affair confirms it for the Ruler of Reality.

  9. How far can planning reach? The affair ultimately

    returns to You, while my changing states are bounded and flawed.

  10. My God, the authority of governance is dazzling

    to what is dulled by possibility and partiality.

  11. Take charge of all my affairs and ward off affliction

    and the scourges of this world, and extend my governance.

Sol 5.6