His Supplication in Pleading and Abasement

1- My God, I praise Thee, - and Thou art worthy of praise -for Thy benefaction toward me, the lavishness of Thy favours toward me, and Thy plentiful bestowal upon me, and for showing bounty toward me through Thy mercyand lavishing Thy favour upon me. Thou hast done well toward meand I am incapable of thanking Thee. 2- Were it not for Thy beneficence toward meand the lavishness of Thy favours upon me, I would not have reached the taking of my sharenor would my soul have been set right, but Thou began with beneficence toward me, provided me sufficiency in all my affairs, turned away from me the toil of affliction, and held back from me the feared decree. 3- My God, how many a toilsome afflictionwhich Thou hast turned away from me! How many a lavish favourwith which Thou hast gladdened my eye! How many a generous benefaction of Thinewhich is present with me! 4- It is Thou whoresponded to my supplication at the time of distress, released me from my slip in stumbling, and took my enemies to task for doing wrong to me. 5- My God, I did not find Thee a miser when I asked of Theenor a withholder when I desired from Thee. No, 1 found Thee a hearer of my supplicationand a bestower of my requests; I found Thy favours toward me lavish in my every situationand in my every time. So Thou art praised by me and Thy benefaction honoured. 6- My soul, my tongue, and my intelligence praise Thee, a praise that reaches fulfilment and the reality of thanksgiving, a praise that attains to Thy good pleasure with me -so deliver me from Thy displeasure! 7- O my cave when the ways thwart me! O He who releases me from my stumble! Were it not for Thy covering my shameful defects, I would be one of the disgraced. O my confirmer through help! Were it not for Thy helping me, I would be one of the overcome! O He before whom kings place the yoke of lowliness around their necks, fearing His penalties! O worthy of reverent fear! O Heto whom belong the names