Irmos: Christ is my strength, God and Lord, the honest Church sings magnificently, crying out from a pure meaning, celebrating in the Lord.
Honest - sacred, reverently revered. Graceful - as befits God. It is pure from meaning - from a pure mind and heart.
“Christ is my strength, God and Lord,” the Holy Church sings in the words of the prophet Habakkuk, “this is the meaning of irmos (quotation marks make this more understandable).
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
The path here is wide and pleasing to create sweetness, but it will be bitter on the last day, when the soul will be separated from the body: beware of this, man, from the Kingdom for the sake of God.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Why do you offend the poor, withhold bribes from a mercenary, do not love your brother, persecute fornication and pride? Forsake this, my soul, and repent for the sake of the Kingdom of God.
Slava:
O foolish man, how long will you gather your wealth like a bee? Soon it will perish like dust and ashes; but seek more the Kingdom of God.
And now:
Lady Theotokos, have mercy on me, a sinner, and strengthen me in virtue, and protect me, so that insolent death does not snatch me away unprepared, and bring me, O Virgin, to the Kingdom of God.
Here - here. Sweets are sensual pleasures, pleasures, lusts. When - when. Beware of these - keep yourself from this. If you withhold a bribe from a mercenary, you withhold the payment to the hired worker (bribe - retribution, reward). Fornication and pride persecute - you do not leave fornication and pride (persecute - follow, achieve, hold on). Uglebaesh - you get bogged down (the image of a bee getting stuck in sweet and sticky things). Brazen - sudden, sudden.