Lord, I have sinned in heaven and before You! Accept our conversion and repentance, accept our groaning and tears, accept the repentance of us sinners, accept our sobbing and cry even to death. Receive us, the accursed, who lived without cold: receive us, O Lover of Mankind, who have greatly angered Thee: receive us, Master, who have spent our whole lives in debauchery, in all wickedness and uncleanness: receive us, O Lord God, who have transgressed Thy commandments: receive us, Master, unworthy Thy servants, and do not reward us according to the work of our hands. We confess to You, Master, that because of our sin we are not worthy even of life: we confess, Lord, that we are not worthy even to look at this sun, because we have not carried such a sin, we have not carried a single such atrocity, which we have not committed in our repentance. But accept us, Lord, as the prodigal son, accept us as the thief, accept us as the harlot and the tax collector. Lord, convert us! Lord, give us reason, and do not be angry with us, but be merciful to our sin! You are our God, and don’t we know otherwise to You? Lord, pluck us from our enemies and do not enter into judgment with Your servants. Lord, You are God, and we are Your people.
We have sinned, we have committed lawlessness and untruth, we have created evil, we have sinned in everything, we have disobeyed Your commandments, and for this reason we have strayed far from You. But have mercy, O Lord, on the works of Your hands: have mercy, O Master, on you, who by the cunning of the serpent drove you out of paradise: have mercy on us and clothe us in a tunic of joy and clothing of salvation: have mercy on us, whom the devil deprived of Your help! Merciful, have mercy on you who have forsaken You and those who serve him: have mercy on those who have gone astray: have mercy on those who have not kept Your commandments and have followed the evil deeds of the demons: have mercy on those who have defiled themselves with sins: have mercy on you who remain under the power of the devil: have mercy on those defiled by debauchery. Have mercy, O Most Merciful: have mercy, Kinder: have mercy, Long-suffering, having committed all evil, all desecration, covetousness and unrighteousness behind our hands. The desecrator of the soul you created in Your image, the desecrator of the body, the desecrator of the feeling.
Our tongue appears like a sharp sword, directed against our neighbor, our eyes cast out flames, our hands are full of blood, our feet are quick to commit evil, our lips are defiled by slander, and, to put it briefly, we desecrate both the earth and the air. Truly, our unrighteous deeds have reached even to heaven, our thefts have exceeded the mountains, our covetousness has surpassed the clouds, our vices have reached the sky, our sins are unforgivable, our crimes have no excuse, our sins are incorrigible, and the earth cannot bear our atrocities. Moreover, Lord, the imams need Your mercy. You weigh the weakness of our nature: have mercy, O Lord, on the creation of Your hands. Behold, we appeal to Thy mercy: do not deprive us of Thy help, send down Thy mercy to us unworthy, grant to us sinners Thy intercession, show us Thy face, and we will be saved.