From deep distress I write to you, Lord God, hear my plea.
Your mercy is clear to me now, and my prayer is open to you.
For so you want to see what sin and wrong has done.
Who can remain before you, Lord?
And if it lasts until the night and again to the morning,
yet my heart shall not yet worry about God's power.
So do, Isa, the righteous man, who has proven the Spirit,
and behold his God.
Whether the sin is much with us, with God is much more grace.
To help his hand has no goal, no matter how great his damage.
He alone is the good shepherd, who will deliver Isa from his sinful path.