A betegségnek békességgel való szenvedéséért
Scourged as Beloved
The speaker accepts temporal chastisement as a sign of God's fatherly love, asking only to be spared eternal condemnation.
My God, scourge me in this world; visit me in this life with your blows—only don't strip me of everlasting goods, and don't cast me into eternal damnation.✦ Lord, you are accustomed to scourge those you take into your favor, and you test those who are yours in the furnace of affliction.✦1 Therefore, my God, let me be among those you love, since I am among those you scourge.✦
Peace and Mercy in Affliction
Turning to God as comfort and strength, the prayer asks either for relief or for the Holy Spirit's grace to suffer peacefully, then confesses sin and pleads for boundless mercy.
Lord, you are the comfort in our troubles and the strength in our frailty. So either ease my afflictions or strengthen my heart through your Holy Spirit, so that I may endure your visitations with peace. I confess, my God, that according to my sins I have deserved not only your earthly scourges, but eternal damnation as well; yet do not deal with me according to my sins, but according to your boundless mercy.✦
Thanksgiving and the Pattern of the Saints
The prayer gives thanks that eternal punishment has become temporal healing medicine, and asks for patient endurance like Job, Tobias, Joseph, David, and Christ, closing with Amen.
Thank you, Lord, that you have turned the eternal punishment I deserved into temporary pains, and that as my loving Father and good, provident physician, you chastise me: so that I will not put my trust in this foul body and the deceitful world, but turn all my desires to you, who are the true strength and encouragement of your sick ones. Grant, my God, that I may suffer your visitations as calmly as your faithful servants Job, Tobias, Joseph, and David; and may he who for my sake suffered the terrible torment of the cross with great peace—our Lord, Jesus Christ—encourage me in all my sicknesses.2 Amen.
Read the original Hungarian
Én Istenem, e világon ostorozz, e világon látogass csapásiddal, csak az örökkévaló jóktúl meg ne fossz, és az örök kárhozatra ne vess. Meg szoktad Uram ostorozni, akit kedvedbe fogadsz, és a nyavalyának kemencéjében próbálod a tiéidet. Légyek azért, én Istenem, azok közül én is, kiket te szeretsz: mivel azok közül vagyok, kiket ostorozsz.
Te vagy, Uram, háborúságinknak vigasztalása, gyarlóságunknak erőssége. Azért vagy könnyebbítsd nyavalyáimat, vagy Szentlelked által erősítsed szívemet, hogy békességgel szenvedjem látogatásidat. Megvallom, én Istenem, hogy bűneim szerént nemcsak evilági ostoridat, de az örök kárhozatot is megérdemlettem; de ne cselekedjél énvelem bűneim szerént, hanem a te véghetetlen irgalmasságod szerént.
Hála néked, Uram, hogy az örökkévaló büntetést, melyet érdemlettem, ideigvaló fájdalmokra változtattad, és mint szerelmes Atyám s jó gondviselő orvosom, ostorozsz engem: hogy a büdös testhez és csalárd világhoz ne bízzam, hanem hozzád térítsem minden kívánságimat, ki igaz erőssége és bátorítója vagy betegidnek. Adjad, én Istenem, hogy a te látogatásidat oly csendesen szenvedjem, mint te hív szolgáid: Jób, Tóbiás, József, Dávid; és az bátorítson engem minden nyavalyáimban, aki énérettem nagy békességgel szenvedé a keresztfának iszonyú kínját, a mi Urunk, Jézus Krisztus. Amen.
Scripture echoes
- ↩1Cor.11.32 — But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
- ↩Prov.3.12;Heb.12.6;Rev.3.19 — For the LORD reproves the one he loves, as a father delights in his son. Heb.12.6 — For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he scourges every son whom he receives. Rev.3.19 — Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline; therefore be earnest and repent.
- ↩Heb.12.6;Prov.3.12 — For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he scourges every son whom he receives. Prov.3.12 — For the LORD reproves the one he loves, as a father delights in his son.
- ↩Ps.103.10 — He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities.
Notes
- 1 ↩nyavalyának can mean illness, misery, or affliction; rendered as 'affliction' to cover the chapter's illness focus without narrowing the furnace image to medical sickness alone.
- 2 ↩látogatásidat rendered as 'your visitations' (divine afflictions/trials as God's visiting), not ordinary social visits; common in traditional sickbed prayer.
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