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Orthodox Chant - Adam's Lament

The fifth-century Byzantine Kontakion 'Adam's Lament', translated by Fr Ephrem Lash (1933-2016) and set to an Eastern Orthodox Chant. Sung by students and staff of the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, and St Hild College. Words: O guide of wisdom, giver of prudence, teacher of the foolish and defender of the poor, establish and give understanding to my heart, O Master. Give me a word, a word of the Father, for see I shall not restrain my lips from crying to thee: O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen. 1: Then Adam sat and wept opposite the delight of Paradise, beating his eyes with his hands and saying: O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen. 2: Share in the pain, O paradise, of your beggared master, and with the sound of thy leaves, implore the Creator not to shut thee. O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen. 3: Bend down thy trees like living beings, and fall before Him who holds the key, that thus thou mayest remain open for one who cries: O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen. 4: I breathe the fragrance of your beauty, and I melt as I recall how I delighted there from the sweet scent of the flowers. O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen. 5: I am polluted, I am ruined, I am enslaved to my slaves, for reptiles and wild beasts, whom I subjected by fear, now make me tremble. O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen. 6: My throat, which holy waters had made sweet, has become bitter from the multitude of my groans, as I cry out: O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen. 7: How have I fallen? Where have I arrived? From a pedestal to the ground. From a divine admonition to a wretched existence I have been reduced. O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen. 8: Now Satan rejoices having stripped me of my glory, but this gives him no joy; for see, my God clothes me. O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen. 9: God himself pities me, clothing my nakedness. By this he shows me that he also cares for me, the transgressor. O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen. 10: Swiftly, O Adam, thou hast understood the wish of my compassion; therefore I do not deprive thee of this thy hope as thou criest out: O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen. 11: I do not wish, nor do I will the death of the one I fashioned, but having chastened him enough, I will glorify eternally the one who cries out: O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen. 12: Now therefore, O Saviour, save me also who seek for thee with longing, I do not wish to take thee in, but I wish to be taken in by thee and to cry out: O Merciful One, have mercy on the fallen.