O lord, look on me, hear my prayer,

O goddess, look on me, hear my prayer.

Men are perverse, nothing they know.

Men of every name, what do they know?

Do they good or ill, nothing they know.

O lord, cast not down thy servant!

Him, plunged into the flood, seize by the hand!

The sin I have committed turn thou to favor!

The evil I have done may the wind carry it away!