1. O how good and gracious, Lord, is your spirit in all things!
2. Therefore, those who wander afield, you correct, and, as to those who sin, you counsel them and admonish them, so that, having abandoned malice, they may believe in you, O Lord.
3. For those ancient inhabitants of your holy land, who you abhorred,
4. because they were doing works hateful to you, through unjust medicines and sacrifices,
5. and the merciless murderers of their own sons, and the eaters of human entrails, and the devourers of blood apart from your community sacrament,
6. and the sellers performing the ceremonies of helpless souls, you willed to destroy by the hands of our parents,
7. so that they might worthily secure the sojourn of the children of God, in the land which is most beloved by you.