Sol 5.6

  1. My God, the Glorious, the True—Your glory inheres

    in Your Essence, Your acts, and Your attributes.

  2. My God, You did not first attain might—no, nor

    through Your act, O Possessor of glory, or through the existence of anything base.

  3. My God, the prerogatives of glory belong to the Truth alone,

    by intrinsic necessity: the glory of divinity.

  4. My God, God’s glory is loftiest in noble qualities,

    and highest in perfection; it is not constrained by my lowliness.

  5. My God, within the vastness of His might, God’s glory

    repels adversity wherever it descends.

  6. My God, what measure has a helpless creature’s praise

    beside the measure of God’s glory and sublime greatness?

  7. My God, had You not ordained remembrance and prayer,

    I would have held God’s glory too holy for my words to mention.

  8. The knots of my ordeals have tightened their hold on me;

    by Your glory, deliver me and untie my affliction.

  9. For You are beautiful in goodness, boundless in giving,

    praiseworthy, glorious; You are not constrained by my need.

  10. I am not disappointed, having sought succor through Your glory,

    even if my human passion has tainted my sincerity.

  11. And what most befits, O Glorious One, Your glory—the

    manifest—is assuredly the fulfillment of my desire.

Sol 5.6