{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig86.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig86.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig86.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\nO my God, I know that my sins are too great to tell,\n And my trespasses too many to remember,\n Yet as a drop from the sea will I make mention of some,\n And make confession of them;\n Perhaps I shall silence the roar of their waves and their crashing,\n \"And Thou wilt hear from heaven and forgive.\"\n I have trespassed against Thy law,\n I have despised Thy commandments,\n I have abhorred them in my heart,\n And with my mouth spoken slander.\n I have committed iniquity,\n And I have wrought evil,\n I have been presumptuous,\n I have done violence,\n I have plastered over falsehood,\n I have counselled evil, p. 110\n I have lied, I have scoffed,\n I have revolted, I have blasphemed,\n I have been rebellious and perverse and sinful,\n I have stiffened my neck,\n I have loathed Thy rebukes and done wickedly,\n I have corrupted my ways,\n I have strayed from my paths,\n I have transgressed and turned away from Thy commandments.\n \"But Thou art just in all that is come upon me\n For Thou hast dealt truly and I have dealt wickedly.\"","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 50. The ...","type":"page"}