How much, preventing God, how much I owe

反复阻止我的神，我对你无限感激，

To the defences thou hast round me set;

你用这一层又一层工事将我环绕：

Example, custom, fear, occasion slow,—

榜样，习俗，恐惧，还有不顺的运气——

These scorned bondmen were my parapet.

人所鄙薄的这些却筑成了我的城堡。

I dare not peep over this parapet

我战战兢兢，不敢把头探出城堡，

To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below,

用目光把下面咆哮的深渊窥视，

The depths of sin to which I had descended,

罪的深渊啊，你肯定早已将我淹没，

Had not these me against myself defended.

如果它们不曾为了保护我而抵御我。