Hello. I am a new member of your forum, because, as you probably know, sixteen-year-old Christians are very familiar with loneliness in real life.
I am from Russia, I am Orthodox.
I want to show you my translation of one Russian Christmas carol, which I really liked last year and I like it now. This translation, in my opinion, is rather clumsy, and I can also make mistakes in English. But in this simple song, in fact, there are quite interesting lines-finds, for the sake of which I, in fact, started all this.
Original: https://lingvoforum.net/index.php/topic,1741.msg2848765.html#msg2848765
Translation:
Mentally I went to the Bethlehem,
And was in the vertep, and I have seen there,
That Our God, Creator, Savior Jesus Christ's
Been born from the Virgin and now, pathetic, lies.
The King lies in the manger for lambs in the den,
Near to Him Joseph and the Magi stand.
Over Christ quietly the Virgin Mother bent,
How to console Him, only she knew that.
Infant Christ wept with grief, so bitterly, it was
Like if the Little One saw His future Cross.
I pitied Christ, I knelt down, when I hear His cry
And I wept along with the Lord of mine.
And then I asked the Virgin the thing to explain:
"Why did little Christ cry with such a pain?"
And the Virgin said me: "He prayed Father, God,
To warm up with pure love every human heart.
He cried cause the vanity made the people caged,
From eternal beauty now they're estranged,
The children don't love Father", the Mother of God said,
"With sins the souls and hearts the people desecrate.
How to fill Eternity, they can't understand,
He cried cause they go to torment without end.
That is why He cried. Have pity in your soul
And Jesus Christ, the Infant, your God, console.
To console Him, listen to the Church's word,
Live a clean life in the service of the Lord."
The Virgin, Mother of God said quietly in my mind:
"Eternity The Son of God wished to give to mankind.
He came to save the ones who seek God and who need,
To do in hellish tortures His striking numbing deed.
Make love Christ the Infant with all your heart and faith
And go after Him, with your Cross, along His path.
To the humble spirit you'll, like to hell, arrive,
In Christ you'll know secret of eternal life".
Mentally I was in the Bethlehem,
I lit my mind and heart with the secret flame.
I am from Russia, I am Orthodox.
I want to show you my translation of one Russian Christmas carol, which I really liked last year and I like it now. This translation, in my opinion, is rather clumsy, and I can also make mistakes in English. But in this simple song, in fact, there are quite interesting lines-finds, for the sake of which I, in fact, started all this.
Original: https://lingvoforum.net/index.php/topic,1741.msg2848765.html#msg2848765
Translation:
Mentally I went to the Bethlehem,
And was in the vertep, and I have seen there,
That Our God, Creator, Savior Jesus Christ's
Been born from the Virgin and now, pathetic, lies.
The King lies in the manger for lambs in the den,
Near to Him Joseph and the Magi stand.
Over Christ quietly the Virgin Mother bent,
How to console Him, only she knew that.
Infant Christ wept with grief, so bitterly, it was
Like if the Little One saw His future Cross.
I pitied Christ, I knelt down, when I hear His cry
And I wept along with the Lord of mine.
And then I asked the Virgin the thing to explain:
"Why did little Christ cry with such a pain?"
And the Virgin said me: "He prayed Father, God,
To warm up with pure love every human heart.
He cried cause the vanity made the people caged,
From eternal beauty now they're estranged,
The children don't love Father", the Mother of God said,
"With sins the souls and hearts the people desecrate.
How to fill Eternity, they can't understand,
He cried cause they go to torment without end.
That is why He cried. Have pity in your soul
And Jesus Christ, the Infant, your God, console.
To console Him, listen to the Church's word,
Live a clean life in the service of the Lord."
The Virgin, Mother of God said quietly in my mind:
"Eternity The Son of God wished to give to mankind.
He came to save the ones who seek God and who need,
To do in hellish tortures His striking numbing deed.
Make love Christ the Infant with all your heart and faith
And go after Him, with your Cross, along His path.
To the humble spirit you'll, like to hell, arrive,
In Christ you'll know secret of eternal life".
Mentally I was in the Bethlehem,
I lit my mind and heart with the secret flame.
.
