Image of Mar Behnam

O you who have given to the son of the mother of life a mouth, and in the heavens your name, the holy ones, thousands. O Lord, glorious and holy in nature, eternal, grant me the gift of the vision of Ezra and the book of Ezekiel. The story of your martyrdom I shall proclaim and announce to the multitude. Peace to your birth from the father of worlds, the Father, and to that which is more shadowy than the Holy Spirit, the Cherub. Mar Behnam, cloud of the city of Merqe and Lahb, may your spreading canopy overshadow my head, when the wondrous roar of the thunderbolt occurs. Peace to the remembrance of your name, good memory and name, to him who invokes it first, the likeness of the hidden and the secret. Mar Behnam, shepherd, for whom your weakness is a concern. How then were you sold, O son of the earth, Adam? For the one who sold you, pure word, blood. Peace to the hair of your head, which fell out, one by one, without your father knowing, O thought of the angels, O penitent. Mar Behnam, Paul, whose name's interpretation is "the one who knows." Save me from my enemies, the armies of the serpent of falsehood, for I am a son of the earth and a mortal man.

Salutation to your tomb, within the bright half of the sanctuary. This is a treasure before your pure body. And the root of Edom, the cross of Mar Behnam, the cave. Is it not that your crown is more radiant than the radiance of the sun and the moon? When the judge comes from heaven for the trial. Salutation to the translation of your body at the end of time. With that which is not, the pain, to the king of Tyre. While Mar Behnam, you sing for the glory of the sole Creator. Is it not that the one who exists is lacking in the face of the Lord? And the work of whose hand is mighty, to whom the Creator is present? Many treasures from the father have surpassed the storehouses of wealth. Mar Behnam, accept the prayer of the widow, my soul. From the measures of manna, the sign, as the eye of your heart has seen. She who has little when sin is her sustenance. And she who has much, whose measure is great, when she is great. Salutation to you, Mar Behnam, the moon, and the fortress of the Lord, the sun. While Armenia is for you a second heaven. Your likeness is seen. Salutation to you, Mar Behnam, mercy, our little swiftness, both of you. At the time of your help and power, for this is he. He reconciles us each day.

Salutation to you. Your salutation, and the Gospel of John preached, while it carved stone and set it in place. My masters, say to him, “By morning and evening.” We took salutation and we left salutation for you. May the Lord be with you.