Lyrics Kyrie Eleison - Bachar Mar-Khalifé

Kyrie Eleison (original)

Ya Rab, sarle
mit sini
Bsoum wo bsale
Irhamni
Ghina’i
Li ashlaq ah
Li ashlaq
Ya Rab
Samti li ashlaq
Li ashlaq
Ya rab
Amanit
Jahadit
Sta’bilni
Smahle etlob akher shi
Yareit,
Ya Rab
Ghina’i
Li ashlaq ah
Li ashlaq
Ya Rab
Samti li ashlaq
Li ashlaq
Ya rab
Amanit
Jahadit
Sta’bilni
Smahle etlob akher shi
Yareit,
Ya Rab
Er!
Ham!
Erham!
Erhamna!
Er!
Ham!
Erham!
Erhamna!

Kyrie Eleison (translation)

O Source beyond the arc of stars, be still in me,
Centuries like dew dissolve in silence,
Fasting and the hush of prayer braid through my breath,
Have mercy—let my thirst be slaked in shadow,
My song, a vessel brimming with unspoken longing,
My hands ache for dawn, stained with restless gold,
My hands ache—veins of winter yearning,
O Source,
My silence—an orchard of hands aching for bloom,
For hands aching,
O Source,
I kept faith as a lamp cupped in the wind,
I battled the dust, the curling dark within,
Strengthen me, root me deep as cypress in gale,
Permit a final plea to rise through the night’s lattice,
If only—
O Source,
My song, a vessel brimming with unspoken longing,
My hands ache for dawn, stained with restless gold,
My hands ache—veins of winter yearning,
O Source,
My silence—an orchard of hands aching for bloom,
For hands aching,
O Source,
I kept faith as a lamp cupped in the wind,
I battled the dust, the curling dark within,
Strengthen me, root me deep as cypress in gale,
Permit a final plea to rise through the night’s lattice,
If only—
O Source,
Hear—
Bring—
Pour mercy—
Let mercy stream through us—
Hear—
Bring—
Pour mercy—
Let mercy stream through us—