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  • Otherwise, how should Moses deem it right that I make mention of anybody before thee?
  • Our covenant hath been broken hundreds and thousands of times; Thy covenant, like a mountain, stands firm and stable. 2495
  • Our covenant is straw and subject to every wind (of passion); Thy covenant is a mountain, and even more than a hundred mountains.
  • By the truth of that power (which is Thine), have some mercy upon our mutability, O Ruler of (all) mutations!
  • We have seen ourselves (as we really are) and our shame. Put us not to further trial, O King,
  • So that (by sparing us) Thou wilt have concealed other disgraces, O Bounteous One whose help we implore!
  • Thou art infinite in beauty and perfection; we are infinite in wrongness and error. 2500
  • Direct Thy infinity, O Bounteous One, upon the infinite wrongness of a handful of vile wretches (such as we are).
  • Oh, come, for of our cloth-piece (only) a single thread remains we were a city, and (only) a single wall remains.
  • (Save) the remnant, (save) the remnant, O Sovereign, that the soul of the Devil may not rejoice entirely––