Oh! How shall I find rest in You? Who will send You into my heart to inebriate it, so that I may forget my woes, and embrace You my only good? What are You to me? Have compassion on me, that I may speak. What am I to You that You demand my love , and unless I give it You art angry , and threaten me with great sorrows? Is it, then, a light sorrow not to love You? Alas! Alas! Tell me of Your compassion, O Lord my God , what You are to me. Say unto my soul , I am your salvation . So speak that I may hear. Behold, Lord, the ears of my heart are before You; open them, and say unto my soul , I am your salvation . When I hear, may I run and lay hold on You. Hide not Your face from me. Let me die, lest I die, if only I may see Your face. Cramped is the dwelling of my soul ; expand it, that You may enter in. It is in ruins, restore it. There is that about it which must offend Your eyes; I confess and know it, but who will cleanse it? Or to whom shall I cry but to You? Cleanse me from my secret sins , O Lord, and keep Your servant from those of other men. I believe , and therefore do I speak; Lord, You know . Have I not confessed my transgressions unto You, O my God ; and You have put away the iniquity of my heart? I do not contend in judgment with You, 7Job 9:3 who art the Truth; and I would not deceive myself, lest my iniquity lie against itself. I do not, therefore, contend in judgment with You, for if You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
TheoFons