1 Now let the mortal offer prayer to win the unexampled grace

Of the Merciful One and His aid to cherish life.

2 For not an enemy molests the paths which these merciful ones tread:

Infallible guards, they strengthen us in happiness.

3 Now soon may the Bestower, the Light-giver, the All-Seeing, the Friend, the Lord of kindness

Give us the shelter widely spread which we implore.

4 With the righteous come Thou whose fostering care none checks, O boundless Mercy:

Come, dear to many, with the Lords who guard us well.

5 For well these servants of mercy know to keep enmities aloof,

Unrivalled, giving ample room, they save from woe.

6 Mercy guard our herd by day, Mercy, free from guile, by night,

Mercy, ever strengthening, save us from grief!

7 And in the day our hymn is this: May mercy come nigh to help,

With loving-kindness bring us weal and chase our foes.

8 And may the divine pair of physicians, the healers, send us health:

May they remove iniquity and chase our foes.

9 May the light bless us with its fires, and the sun warm us pleasantly:

May the pure wind breathe sweet on us, and chase our foes.

10 Drive ye disease and strife away, drive ye away malignity:

O Merciful, keep us ever far from sore distress.

11 Remove from us the arrow, keep famine, O Merciful, far away:

Keep enmities afar from us, Lords of all wealth!

12 Now, O Merciful, grant to us the shelter that lets man go free,

Yea, even the sinner from his sin, ye Bounteous!

13 Whatever mortal with the power of demons fain would injure us,

May he, impetuous, suffer harm by his own deeds.

14 May sin o'ertake our human foe, the man who speaketh evil thing,

Him who would cause our misery, whose heart is false.

15 Ye are with the simple ones, ye know each mortal in your hearts;

Ye, Bountiful, well discriminate the false and true.

16 Fain would we have the sheltering aid of mountains and of water-floods:

Keep far from us iniquity, O heaven and earth.

17 So with auspicious sheltering aid do ye, O Bountiful, carry us

Beyond all trouble and distress, borne in your ship.

18 O Merciful, Most Mighty, grant to our children and their seed

Extended term of life that they may live long days.

19 Devotion, O Merciful, is your inward monitor: be kind,

For in the bond of kindred we are bound to you.

20 The high protecting aid of the angels, the healers, and the God who saves,

The Friend and the All-Seeing for weal we supplicate.

21 Grant us a home with triple guard, O Lord of kindness, Friend, All-Seeing!

Unthreatened, ye angels meet for praise, and filled with men.

22 And as we human beings, O Merciful, are akin to death,

Graciously lengthen ye our lives that we may live.