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5. Lament of the desert people (fragment)

For our sins on our country
The Lord hath visited such misfortune
A dark cloud shines everywhere
The sky and the air in a darker gloom

The sun in the sky hides its beams
And the moonlight is murky in the night
While the stars darken the gloom
And daylight lays down into dark

Then all creatures are terrified
And in the abyss everything shudders
When the infernal beast, allows all this
When from solid shackles he was set loose

About fiercely spat his poison
In the red Catholic vertograd
Zelo evil enemy then roars
And ordered the Catholics to torment

Honest monks he caught
Killed with evil executions
Everywhere the faithful stabbed
Like klasove, reaped

False teachers are revered
On chairs, all ye that are raised
Faithful churches are destroyed
Host and abominations are multiplied

All the prophecies are made
Prophecies come to pass
And what more to we want to expect
In the midst of the world to stay a long time

Already life is this coming to an end
And the day of reckoning is approaching
Be sfraid, Soul, of the terrible Judgement
And the coming of all things terrible

Opened, soul, wings of hardness
Tear the soul mrezhu charm
You bet, soul, to be in the darkest thicket
From the worldy cares so far away

Learn about small cathedral of the faithful
Hidden refuges in the midst of the hills
Do not fear, the soul, the fear of rot
But you should fear the eternal fire

Pour away, soul, a river of tears
Stretch out to God many prayers
Strongly put your hope in Him
Forever and an age let Him be glorified

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from The Oktay Ensemble - That We Shoulild Build - Spiritual Poems (SKMR​-​082), track released June 10, 2010

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