THE LORD NERSES

SHNORHALI

LAMENTATION

EPIC IN MEASURED VERSES

OF THE SAINTS

BOOK ONE

Jesus, only-begotten Son of the Father,
And radiance of His image.
Birth ineffable of the primal mold,
Inseparable from Thy Begetter.
From whom all things that act come into being,
Both intelligible things and those that are visible,
Bodies that exist and the bodiless,
The irrational, together with the rational.