Irmos: As Israel walked on the dry land, / in the footsteps of the abyss, / seeing the persecutor of Pharaoh / being drowned, / we sing a song of victory to God, crying out.
Chorus: Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Now I, a sinner and burdened, have come / to You, my Master and God; / I don’t dare look at the sky, / I just pray, the verb: / Give me, Lord, mind, / May I weep bitterly for my deeds.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Oh, woe to me, a sinner! / I am more damned than all men, / there is no repentance in me; / give me, Lord, tears, / let me cry bitterly for my deeds.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
You are a fool, wretched man, / in laziness you are wasting time; / think about your life, / and turn to the Lord God, / and weep bitterly for your deeds.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Theotokos: Most Pure Mother of God, / look upon me, a sinner, / and deliver me from the snare of the devil, / and guide me on the path of repentance, / so that I may weep bitterly for my deeds.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Contained by many misfortunes, / I resort to You, seeking salvation: / Oh, Mother of the Word and the Virgin, / save me from heavy and cruel ones.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Passions confuse me; / many despondencies fill my soul; / die, O Young Lady, / with the silence of the Son and Thy God, O All-Immaculate One.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Who gave birth to Thee and God as the Savior, / I pray, O Virgin, to be delivered from the cruel ones: / now running to You, / I extend both my soul and my thoughts.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Sick in body and soul, / visits from the Divine and provision from You, the only Mother of God, / like a good Mother.
To Jesus: Lord Jesus Christ my God, have mercy on me.
Sing and praise the song, O Savior, / Your servant is worthy of the likeness, / of the bodiless Angel, my mentor and guardian.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Only I now lie in foolishness and laziness, / my mentor and guardian, / do not leave me, perishing.
Glory: Direct my mind with your prayer, / do God’s commandments, / so that I may receive remission of sins from God, / and teach me to hate the evil ones, I pray to you.
And now: Pray, O Maiden, for me, Thy servant, to the Benefactor, / with my guardian Angel, / and instruct me to do the commandments of Thy Son and my Creator.
Irmos: There is no one holy, / like You, O Lord my God, / the exalted horn of Your faithful, O Good One, / and establishing us on the rock / of Your confession.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Sometimes thrones will be established at the Last Judgment, / then the deeds of all people will be exposed; / woe will be the sinner who is sent to torment; / And then you know, my soul, / Repent from your evil deeds.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
The righteous will rejoice, and the sinners will weep, / then no one will be able to help us, / but our deeds will condemn us, / and before the end, / repent of your evil deeds.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Woe to me, a great sinner, / whose deeds and thoughts have become defiled, / I have not a drop of tears from hard-heartedness; / now arise from the earth, my soul, / and repent from your evil deeds.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Theotokos: Behold, O Lord, Thy Son calls, / and teaches us to do good, / but I am a sinner who always runs for good; / but You, O Merciful One, have mercy on me, / that I may repent of my evil deeds.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
I entrust the intercession and protection of my life to Thee, the Virgin Mother of God: / You feed me to Your refuge, You are guilty of good things; / true statement, One All-Singing One.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
I pray, Virgin, to destroy the storm of my spiritual confusion and sorrow: / For you, O Blessed One of God, / gave birth to the Lord of silence, Christ, the only Most Pure One.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Having given birth to the good of the guilty, / pour out wealth of good deeds to everyone, / for all you can, / as you have given birth to the mighty one in the fortress of Christ, the blessed one.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Help me with fierce ailments and painful passions, O Virgin: / for I know You’s inexhaustible treasure, Most Immaculate, Inexhaustible.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
I place all my thoughts and my soul on you, my guardian; / deliver me from every misfortune of the enemy.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
The enemy tramples me, and embitters me, / and teaches me to always do my own desires; / but you, my mentor, / do not leave me perishing.
Glory: Sing a song with gratitude and zeal / Give to the Creator and God, / and to you, my good guardian angel: / my deliverer, rescue me from the enemies who embitter me.
And now: Heal, Most Pure One, my many painful scabs, even in my soul, the enemies who always fight with me.
Lord, have mercy. (Thrice)
I think about the terrible day / and weep for the deeds of my evil ones: / how will I answer the Immortal King, / or with what boldness will I look at the Judge, O prodigal one? / Gracious Father, Only Begotten Son, / and Holy Soul, have mercy on me.
Glory: From the love of my soul I cry out to you, / to the guardian of my soul, my all-holy Angel: / cover me and always keep me from the evil trap, / and guide me to life in heaven, / admonishing and enlightening and strengthening me.
And now: To the Brideless Most Pure Mother of God, who without seed gave birth to all the Lord, pray to him with my guardian angel, to rid me of all bewilderment, and to give me tenderness and light to the soul mine, and purification through sin, which alone will soon intercede.
Irmos: Christ is my strength, / God and Lord, the honest Church / sings divinely, crying out / from a pure meaning, celebrating in the Lord.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
The path here is wide and pleasing to create sweets, / but it will be bitter on the last day, / when the soul will be separated from the body: / beware of these, O men, / The Kingdom for the sake of God.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Why did you offend the poor, / withhold bribes from the mercenary, / don’t love your brother, / persecute fornication and pride? / Forsake this, my soul, / and repent for the sake of the Kingdom of God.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Oh, foolish man, / how long will you scrabble like a bee, collecting your wealth? / Soon he will perish like dust and ashes: / but seek more the Kingdom of God.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Theotokos: Lady Theotokos, have mercy on me, a sinner, / and strengthen me in virtue, and keep me, / so that insolent death does not snatch me away unprepared, / and bring me, O Virgin, to the Kingdom of God.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Confusion of my passions, / who gave birth to the helmsman of the Lord, / and calmed the storm of my sins, O Bride of God.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Grant me Thy mercy calling upon the abyss, / who gave birth to the Blessed One and the Savior of all who sing to Thee.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Enjoying, O Most Pure One, Your gifts, / we sing songs of thanksgiving, / Our Lady leading You.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
On the bed of my illness and infirmity that I have fallen upon, / as I am gracious, help the Mother of God, / one Ever-Virgin.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
We give hope and affirmation and salvation to the immovable wall of Thee, the All-Singing One, / we get rid of every inconvenience.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Pray to God, the lover of mankind, my guardian, / and do not forsake me, / but keep my life everlasting in the world / and grant me irresistible salvation.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
As an intercessor and guardian of my life, you are received from God, Angel, / I pray to you, holy one, / to free me from all troubles.
Glory: Cleanse my filthiness with your sanctity, my guardian, / and may I be excommunicated from part of Shuiya by your prayers / and may I appear as a partaker of glory.
And now: I am bewildered by the evils that have befallen me, O Most Pure One, / but deliver me from them quickly: / for I alone have come to You.
Irmos: By God’s / Thy light, O Blessed One, / Illumine Thy souls / with love, I pray, / Lead Thee, / the Word of God, / the true God, / crying out from the darkness of sin.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Remember, O accursed man, / how you were enslaved by lies, slander, robbery, infirmity, by a fierce beast, / for the sake of sins; / my sinful soul, is this what you wanted?
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
They tremble with me, for I have brought guilt to all: / I have seen with my eyes, I have heard with my ears, I have spoken with an evil tongue, / I have betrayed everything to myself to hell; / my sinful soul, is this what you desire?
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Thou hast received the fornicator and the repentant thief, O Saviour, / but I alone am aggravated with sinful laziness / and have enslaved myself to evil deeds, / my sinful soul, is this what thou desirest?
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Theotokos: Wonderful and quick helper to all people, Mother of God, / help me, unworthy, / for my sinful soul desires it.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Fill, O Pure One, my heart with joy, / Thy incorruptible joy that gives birth, / giving birth to the guilty one.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Deliver us from troubles, O Pure Mother of God, / having given birth to eternal deliverance, / and peace, which prevails over all minds.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Resolve the darkness of my sins, Bride of God, / with the enlightenment of Your Serene Highness, / Who gave birth to the Divine and Eternal Light.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Heal, O Pure One, the infirmity of my soul, / make Thy visits worthy, / and grant me health with Thy prayers.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
As if I had boldness towards God, / my holy guardian, / I begged Him to deliver me from the evils that offend me.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
O bright light, brightly enlighten my soul, / my mentor and guardian, / given to me by God to the Angel.
Glory: Sleeping me with the evil burden of sin, / keep vigil, O Angel of God, / and raise me up to be glorified by your prayer.
And now: Mary, Lady of the Brideless Mother of God, the hope of the faithful, / cast down the offerings of the enemy, / and those who sing make you glad.
Irmos: The sea of life, / raised in vain by the misfortunes of the storm, / flowed to Your quiet refuge, I cry to You: / lift up my life from aphids, / O great mercy.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Living on earth I lived fornication / and gave my soul into darkness, / now I pray to Thee, Merciful Master: / free me from the work of sowing the enemy, / and give me the mind to create Your will.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Who creates things like I do? / Just like a pig lies in a dung, / so I serve sin. / But You, Lord, pluck me from this vileness / and give my heart to do Your commandments.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Arise, wretched man, to God, / remembering your sins, / falling to the Creator, crying and groaning; / He, who is merciful, / will give you the mind to know His will.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Theotokos: Virgin Mary, / from visible and invisible evil, save me, O Most Pure One, / and accept my prayers, / and convey them to Your Son, / may He give me the mind to do His will.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
For I have saved death and aphids, / having given forth death myself, / through corruption and death my former nature, O Virgin, / pray to the Lord and Thy Son, / to deliver me from the enemies of crime.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
I am your representative and steadfast guardian, O Virgin, / and I solve rumors of misfortunes, and drive away taxes from demons; / and I always pray to deliver me from the corruption of my passions.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Like a wall of refuge for money-grubbers, / and the all-perfect salvation of souls, / and space in sorrow, O Maiden, / and through Your enlightenment we always rejoice: / O Lady, save us even now from passions and troubles.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
I now lie on my sickbed, / and there is no healing for my flesh: / but, having given birth to the God and Savior of the world and the Savior of ailments, / I pray to you, O Good One: / raise me from aphids.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Free me from all misfortunes, and save me from sorrows, / I pray to you, holy Angel, given to me by God, / to my good guardian.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Illuminate my mind, O blessed one, and enlighten me, / I pray to you, holy Angel, / and always instruct me to think usefully.
Glory: Tidy my heart from the present rebellion, / and be vigilant, strengthen me in good things, my guardian, / and guide me wonderfully towards the silence of animals.
And now: The Word of God dwells in Thee, Mother of God, / and man shows Thee the heavenly ladder; / Because of you, the Most High came down to us to eat.
Lord, have mercy. (Thrice)
Glory, and now:
My soul, / why are you rich in sins, / why do you do the will of the devil, / in what hope do you place your hope? / Stop from these things / and turn to God weeping, calling: / Merciful Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Thoughts, my soul, the bitter hour of death / and the terrible judgment of your Creator and God: / For the angels of danger will understand you, my soul, / and will lead you into the eternal fire: / therefore, before you die, repent, crying: / Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Irmos: The dew-bearing furnace / was made by an Angel / like a venerable youth, / the Chaldeans were scorching / the command of God, / the tormentor exhorted to cry out: / Blessed are you, God our father.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Do not trust, my soul, / in corruptible wealth and in unrighteous gatherings, / for you will not leave all this to anyone, but cry: / have mercy on me, O Christ God, who is unworthy.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Do not trust, my soul, in bodily health / and in fleeting beauty, / for you see how the strong and the young die; but cry: / have mercy on me, O Christ God, who is unworthy.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Remember, my soul, eternal life, / the Kingdom of Heaven, prepared for the saints, / and the pitch darkness and the wrath of God for the wicked, and cry: / have mercy on me, O Christ God, who is unworthy.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Theotokos: Fall, my soul, to the Mother of God and pray to her, / for she is a quick helper to those who repent, / will pray to the Son of Christ God, / and will have mercy on me, unworthy.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Our salvation, as thou didst desire, O Savior, to arrange, / thou didst dwell in the womb of the Virgin, / thou hast shown the world as a representative: / our father, God, blessed art thou.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
The Commander of mercy, whom you gave birth to, O pure Mother, / begged to be delivered from sins and spiritual defilements by faith: / our father, God, blessed are you.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
The treasure of salvation and the Source of incorruption, You who gave birth, / and the pillar of affirmation, and the door of repentance, you showed to those calling: / our father God, blessed are you.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Bodily weaknesses and mental ailments, Mother of God, / through the love of those who approach Your blood, O Virgin, heal the graces, / who gave birth to the Savior Christ for us.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Be merciful to me, and pray to God, O Lord Angel, / for I have you as an intercessor in my whole life, a mentor and guardian, / bestowed upon me by God forever.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Do not leave my accursed souls on their way / to be killed by a robber, holy Angel, / who were betrayed by God without blemish; / but guide her on the path of repentance.
Glory: I bring all my soul to shame / from my evil thoughts and deeds: / but first, my mentor, / grant me healing with good thoughts, / always deviate from me onto the right path.
And now: Fill everyone with wisdom and Divine strength, / Hypostatic Wisdom of the Most High, for the sake of the Mother of God, who cry with faith: / Our father, God, blessed are you.
Irmos: From the flames of the saints you poured out dew / and you burned the righteous sacrifice with water: / you did everything, O Christ, just as you willed. / We extol You to all ages.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Why shouldn’t I cry when I think about death, / seeing my brother lying in the grave, inglorious and ugly? / What do I drink and what do I hope for? / Just grant me, Lord, / before the end, repentance. (twice)
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
I believe that you will come to judge the living and the dead, / and all will stand in their rank, / old and young, rulers and princes, virgins and priests; where will I find myself? / For this reason I cry: / Grant me, O Lord, repentance before the end.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Theotokos: Most Pure Mother of God, / accept my unworthy prayer / and save me from insolent death, / and grant me repentance before the end.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Do not despise the help that you require from You, O Virgin, / singing and extolling You forever.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
You heal the infirmity of my soul and bodily illnesses, O Virgin, / so that I may glorify You, O Pure One, forever.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
You pour out a wealth of healing to those who faithfully sing to Thee, O Virgin, / and to those who extol Your ineffable Nativity.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
You drive away adversity and find passions, O Virgin: / and therefore we sing of You forever and ever.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Sent from God, / strengthen the life of my servant, O most good Angel, / and do not leave me forever.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
You are a good angel, / my soul’s mentor and guardian, most blessed, / I sing for ever.
Glory: May I be protected and protected / on the day of testing of all people, / who will be tempted by fire to do good and evil.
And now: Be my helper and silence, O Ever-Virgin Mother of God, Thy servant, / and do not leave me deprived of Thy dominion.
Irmos: God / cannot be seen by man, / the officials of Angels do not dare to look at Worthiness; / By You, All-Pure One, appearing as a man / The Word Incarnate, / Who is magnified, / with the heavenly howls we please You.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Now I come running to you, / Angels, Archangels and all the heavenly powers, / standing at the Throne of God, / pray to Your Creator, / that He may deliver my soul from eternal torment.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Now I cry to you, / holy patriarchs, kings and prophets, / apostles and saints and all the elect of Christ: / help me in judgment, / may he save my soul from the power of the enemy.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Now I will lift up my hand to you, / holy martyrs, hermits, virgins, righteous women / and all the saints who pray to the Lord for the whole world, / may he have mercy on me at the hour of my death.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Theotokos: Mother of God, help me, / who trusts most strongly in You, / beseech His Son, / that He may place me unworthy at His right hand, / when the judge of the living and the dead sits. Amen.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
I will not turn away my tears, / Even though I have taken away every tear from every face, / The Virgin who gave birth to Christ.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Fill my heart with joy, O Virgin, / who accepts fulfillment as joy, / who consumes sinful sadness.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Refuge and representation for those who come running to You / be, O Virgin, and an unbreakable wall, / refuge and cover and joy.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Illuminate Your light with the dawnings, O Virgin, / driving away the darkness of ignorance, / those who faithfully confess Theotokos to You.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
In the place of the bitterness of the infirmity of the humbled one, O Virgin, heal, / transforming them from ill health into health.
To Jesus: Lord Jesus Christ my God, have mercy on me.
Have mercy on me, my only Savior, / for you are merciful and merciful, / and make me a partaker of righteous faces.
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
May the Lord Angel grant me good and useful thoughts and creation, / as she is strong in weakness and blameless.
Glory: Because you have boldness towards the Heavenly King, pray to Him, / with the rest of the disembodied, to have mercy on me, the accursed one.
And now: You have much boldness, O Virgin, to Him who became incarnate from You, / turn me from my bonds and grant me permission and salvation through Your prayers.
Master Christ God, who healed my passions with His passions and healed my ulcers with His wounds, grant me, who have sinned much to You, tears of compunction; dissolve my body from the smell of Your Life-Giving Body, and delight my soul with Your Honest Blood from sorrow, from which the enemy gave me a drink; lift up my mind to You, which has fallen to the ground, and lift me up from the abyss of destruction: for I am not the imam of repentance, I am not the imam of tenderness, I am not the imam of consoling tears that lead children to their inheritance.
My mind has been darkened by worldly passions, I cannot look to You in illness, I cannot warm myself with tears, even with love for You. But, Lord Jesus Christ, treasury of good things, grant me complete repentance and a laborious heart to seek Yours, grant me Your grace and renew the eyes in me Your image.
Leave Thee, do not leave me; come to seek me, lead me to Your pasture and number me among the sheep of Your chosen flock, educate me with them from the grain of Your Divine Sacraments, through the prayers of the Most Pure One Your Mother and all Your saints. Amen.
Blessings to my Queen, My Hope to the Mother of God, Friend of the orphans and the strange to the Representative, the grieving to Joy, the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow, help me as I am weak, feed me as I am strange. Resolve my grievance, as if I were wrong: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God; May you protect me and protect me forever and ever. Amen.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I turn in my grief, if not to You, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and my sighing, if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and the Refuge for us sinners? Who will protect you more in adversity?
Hear now my groaning, and incline Your ear to me, the Lady of the Mother of my God, and do not despise me, who requires Your help, and do not reject me, a sinner.
Give understanding and teach me, O Queen of Heaven; do not depart from me, Thy servant, O Lady, for my murmuring, but be my Mother and Intercessor. I entrust myself to Your merciful protection: lead me, a sinner, to a quiet and serene life, so that I may weep for my sins. To whom shall I turn when I am guilty, if not to You, the hope and refuge of sinners, with the hope of Your ineffable mercy and Your bounty?
About the Lady Queen of Heaven! You are my hope and refuge, protection and intercession and help. Best regards to my queen and speedy intercessor! Cover my sins with Your intercession, protect me from enemies visible and invisible, soften the hearts of evil people who rebel against me.
O Mother of the Lord my Creator! You are the root of virginity and the unfading color of purity. O Mother of God! Give me help to those who are weak with carnal passions and those who are sick at heart: for one is Yours and with You Your Son and our God is the intercession of the imam, and by Your wonderful intercession yes I will get rid of all troubles and misfortunes, O most immaculate and glorious Mother of God Mary. Moreover, with hope I say and cry: Rejoice, O Blessed One, Rejoice, O O Joyful One, Rejoice, O Most Blessed One, the Lord is with Thee.
Holy Angel of Christ, falling to you I pray, my holy guardian, given to me for the preservation of my soul and body, a sinner from holy baptism, because of my laziness and my evil It is our custom to anger your most pure lordship and drive you away from us with all the evil deeds: lies, slander, envy, condemnation, contempt, disobedience, brotherly hatred, and resentment, love of money, adultery, rage, stinginess, gluttony without satiety and drunkenness, excessive talking, evil thoughts and crafty ones, proud custom and lustful rage, having self-desire for all carnal lust.
Oh, my evil will, even the beasts do not do it without words! How can you look at me, or approach me like a stinking dog? Whose eyes, Angel of Christ, look upon me, entangled in evil in vile affairs? How can I ask for forgiveness for my bitter and evil and crafty deeds, where I fall into misery all day and night and at every hour?
But I pray to you, falling down, my guardian saint, have mercy on me, a sinner and unworthy servant of yours (name), be my helper and intercessor against the evil of my opponent, by your saints prayers, and make me a partaker of the Kingdom of God with all the saints, forever, amen.