Kathisma X

O come, let us worship God our King. O come, let us worship and fall down before Christ, our King and our God. O come, let us worship and fall down before the very Christ, our King and our God.

Stasis I

Psalm 70 (71)

¹O Lord, I have hoped in you: let me never be put to shame. ²In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me: incline your ear to me, and save me. ³Be to me a protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for you are my fortress and my refuge. ⁴Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the sinner, from the hand of the transgressor and unjust man. ⁵For you are my support, O Lord; O Lord, you are my hope from my youth. ⁶On you have I been stayed from the womb: from the belly of my mother you are my protector: of you is my praise continually. ⁷I am become as it were a wonder to many: but you are my strong helper. ⁸Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may hymn your glory, and your majesty all the day. ⁹Cast me not off at the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails. ¹⁰For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that lay wait for my soul have taken counsel together, ¹¹saying, God has forsaken him: persecute you and take him; for there is none to deliver him. ¹²O God, go not far from me, O my God, draw near to my help. ¹³Let those that plot against my soul be ashamed and utterly fail: let those that seek my hurt be clothed with shame and dishonor. ¹⁴But I will hope continually, and will praise you more and more. ¹⁵My mouth shall declare your righteousness openly, and your salvation all the day; for I am not acquainted with the affairs of men. ¹⁶I will go on in the might of the Lord: O Lord, I will make mention of your righteousness only. ¹⁷O God, you have taught me from my youth, and until now will I declare your wonders; ¹⁸even until I am old and advanced in years. O God, forsake me not; until I shall have declared your arm to all the generation that is to come: ¹⁹even your power and your righteousness, O God, up to the highest heavens, even the mighty works which you have done: O God, who is like to you? ²⁰What afflictions many and sore have you showed me! yet you did turn and quicken me, and brought me again from the depths of the earth. ²¹You did multiply your righteousness, and did turn and comfort me, and brought me again out of the depths of the earth. ²²I will also therefore give thanks to you, O God, because of your truth, on an instrument of psalmody: I will sing psalms to you on the harp, O Holy One of Israel. ²³My lips shall rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed. ²⁴Moreover also my tongue shall dwell all the day upon your righteousness; when they shall be ashamed and confounded that seek my hurt.

Psalm 71 (72)

¹O God, give your judgment to the king, and your righteousness to the king's son; ²that he may judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with judgment. ³Let the mountains and the hills raise peace to your people: ⁴he shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser. ⁵And he shall continue as long as the sun, and before the moon for ever. ⁶He shall come down as rain upon a fleece; and as drops falling upon the earth. ⁷In his days shall righteousness spring up; and abundance of peace till the moon be removed. ⁸And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. ⁹The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. ¹⁰The kings of Tharsis, and the isles, shall bring presents: the kings of the Arabians and Saba shall offer gifts. ¹¹And all kings shall worship him; all the Gentiles shall serve him. ¹²For he has delivered the poor from the oppressor; and the needy who had no helper. ¹³He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall deliver the souls of the needy. ¹⁴He shall redeem their souls from usury and injustice: and their name shall be precious before him. ¹⁵And he shall live, and there shall be given him of the gold of Arabia: and men shall pray for him continually; and all the day shall they praise him. ¹⁶There shall be an establishment on the earth on the tops of the mountains: the fruit thereof shall be exalted above Libanus, and they of the city shall flourish as grass of the earth. ¹⁷Let his name be blessed for ever: his name shall endure longer than the sun: and all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed. ¹⁸Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who alone does wonders. ¹⁹And blessed is his glorious name for ever, even for ever and ever: and all the earth shall be filled with his glory. So be it, so be it. ²⁰The hymns of David the son of Jessae are ended.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Glory to thee, O God. (Thrice.) Lord, have mercy. (Thrice.) Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Stasis II

Psalm 72 (73)

¹How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart! ²But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped. ³For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners. ⁴For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and they have firmness under their affliction. ⁵They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men. ⁶Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness. ⁷Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: they have fulfilled their intention. ⁸They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: they have uttered unrighteousness loftily. ⁹They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth. ¹⁰Therefore shall my people return hither: and full days shall be found with them. ¹¹And they said, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? ¹²Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth. ¹³And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency. ¹⁴For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof was every morning. ¹⁵If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of your children. ¹⁶And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me, ¹⁷until I go into the sanctuary of God; and so understand the latter end. ¹⁸Surely you have appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings: you have cast them down when they were lifted up. ¹⁹How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity. ²⁰As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in your city you will despise their image. ²¹For my heart has rejoiced, and my reins have been gladdened. ²²But I was vile and knew not: I became brutish before you. ²³Yet I am continually with you: you have holden my right hand. ²⁴You have guided me by your counsel, and you have taken me to yourself with glory. ²⁵For what have I in heaven but you? and what have I desired upon the earth beside you? ²⁶My heart and my flesh have failed: but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion for ever. ²⁷For, behold, they that remove themselves far from you shall perish: you have destroyed every one that goes a whoring from you. ²⁸But it is good for me to cleave close to God, to put my trust in the Lord; that I may proclaim all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

Psalm 73 (74)

¹Therefore have you rejected us, O God, for ever? therefore is your wrath kindled against the sheep of your pasture? ²Remember your congregation which you have purchased from the beginning; you did ransom the rod of your inheritance; this mount Sion wherein you have lived. ³Lift up your hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places. ⁴And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your feast; they have set up their standards for signs, ⁵ignorantly as it were in the entrance above; ⁶they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter. ⁷They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of your name. ⁸They have said in their heart, even all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth. ⁹We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and God will not know us any more. ¹⁰How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke your name forever? ¹¹Therefore turn you away your hand, and your right hand from the midst of your bosom for ever? ¹²But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. ¹³You did establish the sea, in your might, you did break to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water. ¹⁴You did break to pieces the heads of the dragon; you did give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations. ¹⁵You did cleave fountains and torrents; you dried up mighty rivers. ¹⁶The day is yours, and the night is yours; you have prepared the sun and the moon. ¹⁷You have made all the borders of the earth; you have made summer and spring. ¹⁸Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name. ¹⁹Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor. ²⁰Look upon your covenant: for the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity. ²¹let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise your name. ²²Arise, O God, plead your cause: remember your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day. ²³Forget not the voice of your suppliants: let the pride of them that hate you continually ascend before you.

Stasis III

Psalm 74 (75)

¹We will give thanks to you, O God, we will give thanks, and call upon your name: I will declare all your wonderful works. ²When I shall take a set time, I will judge righteously. ³The earth is dissolved, and all that dwell in it: I have strengthened its pillars. Pause. ⁴I said to the transgressors, Do not transgress; and to the sinners, Lift not up the horn. ⁵Lift not up your horn on high; speak not unrighteousness against God. ⁶For good comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert mountains. ⁷For God is the judge; he puts down one, and raises up another. ⁸For there is a cup in the hand of the Lord, full of unmingled wine; and he has turned it from side to side, but its dregs have not been wholly poured out; all the sinners of the earth shall drink them. ⁹But I will exult for ever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. ¹⁰And I will break all the horns of sinners; but the horns of the righteous one shall be exalted.

Psalm 75 (76)

¹God is known in Judea: his name is great in Israel. ²And his place has been in peace, and his dwelling-place in Sion. ³There he broke the power of the bows, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Pause. ⁴You do wonderfully shine forth from the everlasting mountains. ⁵All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands. ⁶At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, the riders on horses slumbered. ⁷You are terrible; and who shall withstand you, because of your anger? ⁸You did cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, ⁹when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek in heart. Pause. ¹⁰For the inward thought of man shall give thanks to you: and the memorial of his inward thought shall keep a feast to you. ¹¹Vow, and pay your vows to the Lord our God; all that are round about him shall bring gifts, even to him that is terrible, ¹²and that takes away the spirits of princes; to him that is terrible among the kings of the earth.

Psalm 76 (77)

¹I cried to the Lord with my voice, yes, my voice was addressed to God; and he gave heed to me. ²In the day of my affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; even with my hands by night before him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted. ³I remembered God, and rejoiced; I poured out my complaint, and my soul fainted. Pause. ⁴All my enemies set a watch against me: I was troubled, and spoke not. ⁵I considered the days of old, and remembered ancient years. ⁶And I meditated; I communed with my heart by night, and diligently searched my spirit, saying, ⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be well pleased no more? ⁸Will he cut off his mercy for ever, even for ever and ever? ⁹Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause. ¹⁰And I said, Now I have begun; this is the change of the right hand of the Most High. ¹¹I remembered the works of the Lord; for I will remember your wonders from the beginning. ¹²And I will meditate on all your works, and will consider your doings. ¹³O God, your way is in the sanctuary; who is a great God as our God? ¹⁴You are the God that do wonders; you have made known your power among the nations. ¹⁵You have with your arm redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Pause. ¹⁶The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you, and feared; and the depths were troubled. ¹⁷There was an abundant sound of waters: the clouds uttered a voice; for your arrows went abroad. ¹⁸The voice of your thunder was abroad, and around your lightnings appeared to the world; the earth trembled a quaked. ¹⁹Your way is in the sea, and your paths in many waters, and your footsteps can’t be known. ²⁰You did guide your people as sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

The Septuagint in English (Brenton, LXX2012), public domain. Numbering follows the Greek, with the Hebrew number in parentheses.