The Writings of Gregory of Narek

...found ineffable at the exits of means, broken again by the hand of the Builder, thrown out by the righteous retribution by the command of the Powerful One to an unclean place, rejected and exiled with great severity, in everything without sparing, hiding coins in the earth with evils, according to the loss-giving denier who is shown in the Gospel.

B. Decorative initial letter "A" (Ayb) But you, God, the God of souls and all bodies, according to the confession of the God-gifted one, long-suffering and very merciful, according to the voice of holy Jonah the prophet of Nineveh, grant to complete, for your pleasure, O Blessed One, the will of this begun book of supplications of this lamentation. And with weeping, sowing this word in the previously prepared steps of the dwellings, at the completion of the arriving harvest of gathering, may I return, gladdened by the fullness of the atonement of the fruit of the blessedness of the things of goodness. Do not give me a womb of a heart without children, like Israel, and dried-up breasts of eyes, O All-Merciful One. Hear the rational suppliant, O Powerful and Merciful One, before the heaven and the earth of the earth, and the grain and the wine and the oil, and those of Israel. And may the plea of the heavenly ones which is unto you, affect my soul, rather than the corruptible elements. You are the Creator, and I am the clay, but for me, who is doubting at the entrance of the supplications of this groaning, may the sweetness of your will be strengthened here. So that, at the opening of the upper heaven, not having been found as a chosen one for the training of the enjoyment of light, I may not be consumed like the substance of wax, erased from the midst. O Spirit of the deprived, according to the calling of the one who says the supplications, and strength of the weakened, and life of the worn-out, with the conscience of my mind, but not by the suffering of the passions, the labors of seeking you, take the pledge of this supplication and give the mercy of your graces. Receive the small from the weak, and grant the great from the Powerful One. Strengthen the words of repentance, having sent into us the Spirit from on high, with God-breathed commands of those things that have happened in this. Bestow, O Benefactor, the parable of Isaiah, enlightened unto truth, offering to me, who am worthy of death, the contemptible sound of my being, instead of the bronze...