The Great Canon Á-? On Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent - Page 7 of 59
Song 2.
Eirmos
Attend, O heaven, and I will speak, and will sing
of Christ who came to dwell among us in flesh which
He took from the Virgin.
Refrain:
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Troparia:
1.
Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; O earth, give ear to a
voice repenting to God and singing praises to Him.
2.
Attend to me, O God my Savior, with Thy merciful eye, and
accept my fervent confession.
(Proverbs 15:3; Psalm 33:15)
3.
I have sinned above all men, I alone have sinned against
Thee. But as God have compassion, O Savior, on Thy
creature.
(I Timothy 1:15)
4.
A storm of passions besets me, O compassionate Lord. But
stretch out Thy hand to me too, as to Peter.
(Matthew 14:31)
5.
The tears of the harlot, O merciful Lord, I too offer to Thee.
Be merciful to me, O Savior, in Thy compassion.
(Luke 7:38; 18:13. )
6.
I have darkened the beauty of my soul with passionate
pleasures, and my whole mind I have reduced wholly to
mud.
7.
I have torn my first garment which the Creator wove for me
in the beginning, and therefore I am lying naked.
(Genesis 3:21)
8.
I have put on a torn coat, which the serpent wove for me by
argument, and I am ashamed.
(Genesis 3:4-5)
9.
I looked at the beauty of the tree, and my mind was
seduced; and now I lie naked, and I am ashamed.
(Genesis 3:7)