Prayer to faithfulness for help here below and on the way to the hereafter. Reference to the transience of everything earthly.

Faithfulness, I bear witness to you

as a man who seeks knowledge.

To you my eyes look up,

chosen one of the Living God, who has gone here.

Come, tell my heart to rest,

tell my inmost being to be healed.

Tell my thoughts

to remain firm in their place.

Tell him who bridges rivers

to build me a bridge over the rivers.

Tell the guardian of the seas

to keep a crossing for me in the sea.

Tell him who levels mountains

to level a way for me on the mountains.

Tell the shaper of images and figures:

desire strikes your own head.

Tell the bodily builder:

hasten to erect your building,

hasten to erect your building,

for very soon you must leave it.

The world passes away,

and its works are abandoned.

The beloved gold is lost,

and the silver is sought and not found.

The hearts of joy go blind,

and their song passes away and comes to nothing.

The king leaves his crown,

and the nobles go into captivity.

The perfect ascend to the light,

but the wrongdoers are held back here.

And the Living God is victorious.