The Great Canon Á-? On Tuesday of the First Week - Page 11 of 19
Song 6.
Eirmos:
I cried with my whole heart to the merciful God,
and He heard me from the lowest hell and raised my
life out of corruption.
Refrain:
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Troparia:
The waves of my sins, O Savior, as in the Red Sea recoiled
and covered me unawares, like the Egyptians of old and
their charioteers.
(Exodus 14:7-31)
Like Israel of old, my soul, you have had a foolish affection.
For like a brute you have preferred to divine manna the
pleasure-loving gluttony of the passions.
(Numbers 21; 5: I Corinthians 10: 9)
The wells of Canaanite thoughts, my soul, you have prized
above the Rock with the cleft from which the river of wisdom
like a chalice pours forth streams of theology.
(Genesis 21:25; Exodus 17:6)
Swine's flesh and hotpots and Egyptian food you, my soul,
have preferred to heavenly manna, as of old the senseless
people in the wilderness.
(Exodus 16:3; Numbers 11:4-7)
When Thy servant Moses struck the rock with his staff, he
mystically typified Thy life-giving side, O Savior, from which
we all draw the water of life.
(Numbers 20:11; I Corinthians 10:4)
Explore and spy out the Land of Promise like Joshua the
Son of Nun, my soul, and see what it is like, and settle in it
by observing the laws.
(Josh. 2)