Nisibene Hymn 12: The Power That Overcame Legion

In my affliction I will call on the Power that subdues all,

that is able to subdue the Captor in his wrath,

as it overcame Legion.

Refrain: Glory to his grace!

The Evil One, my brothers and sisters, has repaid me debts he never borrowed from me;

the good God likewise has repaid me mercies I never lent him.

Come and marvel at these two things!

The good God has divided and given my misdeeds to his grace

and my offenses to his justice; his mercy has blotted out my misdeeds,

his judgment has repaid my offenses.

Sin was furious and remained in alarm

when she saw how grace put restraint on freedom,

so that she might overcome transgressions.

Glow, O my Lord, and send down your love; break out and pour forth your wrath!

Your wrath to destroy, your love to rescue

the captives from the captor!

In the days when the Evil One decreed to cast me out,

as with a sling, into destruction, in those days the good God bound up and kept

my soul in the bundle of life.

The men of speech, who never fall silent from praising continually,

who kept me in the midst of the waves and held me up so that I did not fall,

let them give praise in my place, O my Lord!

For who has ever been equal to the grace

of the mercies that surrounded him, that I should be equal to praising

the mercies that surround me?