Sol 5.6

  1. Self-sufficiency necessarily belongs to the One self-sufficient in Himself.

    Holy is He, beyond deficiency and all contingency.

  2. Your sufficiency is eternal in Your attributes and Your Essence—the

    Majestic—and in Your holy acts.

  3. Self-Sufficient, His sufficiency absolute, necessarily everlasting;

    all bonds of poverty belong to created existence.

  4. Self-Sufficient—His sufficiency no obstacle can impede;

    none above Him enriches Him, nor does any cause underlie Him.

  5. Self-Sufficient, He manifests in His affairs through sufficiency—

    a true independence from what is designated metonymically.

  6. Self-Sufficient—His sufficiency no obstacle can impede;

    creation’s dependence cannot reach beyond Him.

  7. Self-Sufficient—His sufficiency never perishes at any limit,

    nor does it depend—exalted in station—upon any relation.

  8. My God, Richest of the rich, their Sustainer,

    You possess my need, O Sovereign, and my sufficiency.

  9. Pour out sufficiency upon me, O Richest of the rich,

    by Your grace, Possessor of all-embracing mercy.

  10. My God, the servant’s sufficiency is through the Real alone.

    Here, in poverty, all creation’s hands are outstretched.

  11. Your satisfying of needs does not transform them

    into a fixed state necessarily beyond their poverty.

Sol 5.6