The First Step to Conversion

death): and [I have] made myself a partaker of the inheritance of vanity (in the wrath of Your Father, in the curse of the earth), and am caught in sin, and half dead in Your kingdom: I lie in the powerlessness of Your strength, and the grim [or severe] death awaits me; the Devil has poisoned me, so that I do not know my Savior: I have become a wild branch on Your tree, and have consumed my inheritance (from You) with the Devil’s swine. What shall I say before You, while I am not worthy of Your grace? I lie in the sleep of death that has captured me: and am bound tight with three strong chains. O You Breaker-through of death, come to my help, for I can and am capable of nothing: I have become dead to myself, and have no strength before You, and do not dare to lift my eyes (by reason of great shame) before You; for I am the defiled swineherd, and have wasted my inheritance with the false, lecherous Whores of vanity (in the lust