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This study presents the possibilities of literature to counter the crisis in the Balkans in the 17th century. The analysis of the language material by the New Bulgarian damascenes proves that the authors use special anti-crisis language strategies. The peculiarities of the text about Second Coming of Christ and the text about the Ten Commandments of God in the field of vocabulary, but also in morphology, syntax, are presented. The changes in the vocabulary towards the archaic damascenes and the introduction of words from the spoken language are pointed out.