1. إلهي خطايا ضقت ذرعاً بحملها

    وأنت لها باللطف تمحو وتغفر

    My God, I cannot bear the burden of these sins;

    And You, in kindness, erase them and forgive.

  2. رحمت فلم أقصر فعادت خطيئتي

    علي بهم وهو للنفس يهصروا

    You showed mercy, yet I did not desist; so my sin returned

    Upon me with grief that crushes the soul.

  3. تأكل منه كل ما في جوارحي

    فلا حول والآلام حولي تصفر

    All within my limbs has wasted away because of it;

    So I am powerless, while pains whistle around me.

  4. وخلف داء عضني في حشاشتي

    بإيلامه يكوى الفؤاد المفطر

    And it left an illness that bit into my life's core;

    By its torment, the shattered heart is seared.

  5. إلهي خطايا عن يميني ويسرتي

    تلاحق خطواً كم بها تتعثر

    My God, sins to my right and to my left

    Pursue my steps, which so often stumble over them.

  6. وأشباحها سدت طريق استقامتي

    بليل طويل صبحه ليس يسفر

    And their specters have barred my path to uprightness

    In a long night whose dawn does not break.

  7. وعزمي كليل كيف يحمل خطوتي

    ويمضي بها والرشد مني محير

    And my resolve is weary—how can it carry my step

    And move onward with it, while my judgment is bewildered?

  8. اسير بليل ستره حالك الرؤى

    فكيف به يمشي الكليل المعثر

    I walk in a night whose veil is dark with visions;

    How, then, can the weary, stumbling one walk through it?