1. O faithful vinegar
And he who befriends you, his guardian is the Almighty

2. You have taken the covenant of faith lawfully
By your father! The most righteous will not blame you

3. And you have entrusted the souls with virtues
Your love protects them, O Exalted Master

4. Each of your deeds is desirable
And each of your traits is ingenious

5. Your fingers are supple and your gaze hints
Your idea flows and the intelligent one sees

6. That you, O Macardich the Redeemer
Guardian of a trust, hero of perfection

7. Solving problems of great significance
With which our Bible is forever satisfied

8. You have overcome them with your quick wit
Patriotic and brilliant mind

9. The innovators saw you confused
That you are among them a goblet and irrigation

10. You are the vine of innovators, a thicket of thorns
And your fruits are the finest crops

11. So the wicked Nestorius has fled from you
And the vile Demetrius of snakes

12. And the wicked Barsuma and his followers
And the accursed Jacob the heretic

13. And Sergius, he too of serpents
And Photius then Palamas the wretched

14. They are the ones who distorted it
They are the transgressors and transgression is disobedience

15. So do not purify the congregation secretly
And its pasture, while its shepherd is a boy

16. If it is said one who rules by sedition
Which disgraces them, and his ruling is furtive

17. I say their adversary altogether
Is Macardich the vile Armenian

18. So by God's spirit if settled it settles
And its witness is the mighty Joseph

19. Indeed you are the Chosen, indeed
Free in our covenant, free

20. You have watered it with fresh grace
He is the Marked in it, and the Guardian

21. If the water of law has irrigated an enemy
No origin will sprout from it

22. You have taken a path in truth most high
And the wicked fall short of its extent

23. Will the smoke of rubbish ever rise
As the pure, fragrant, intelligent musk?

24. You have sealed the previous cases
As poetry seals the final verse