Kathisma XII

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 85 (86)

¹O Lord, incline your ear, and listen to me; for I am poor and needy. ²Preserve my soul, for I am holy; save your servant, O God, who hopes in you. ³Pity me, O Lord: for to you will I cry all the day. ⁴Rejoice the soul of your servant: for to you, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul. ⁵For you, O Lord, are kind, and gentle; and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon you. ⁶Give ear to my prayer, o Lord; and attend to the voice of my supplication. ⁷In the day of my trouble I cried to you: for you did hear me. ⁸There is none like to you, O Lord, among the gods; and there are no works like to your works. ⁹All nations whom you have made shall come, and shall worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name. ¹⁰For you are great, and do wonders: you are the only and the great God. ¹¹Guide me, O Lord, in your way, and I will walk in your truth: let my heart rejoice, that I may fear your name. ¹²I will give you thanks, O Lord my God, with all my heart; and I will glorify your name for ever. ¹³For your mercy is great toward me; and you have delivered my soul from the lowest hell. ¹⁴O God, transgressors have risen up against me, and an assembly of violent men have sought my life; and have not set you before them. ¹⁵But you, O Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and true. ¹⁶Look you upon me, and have mercy upon me: give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your handmaid. ¹⁷Establish with me a token for good; and let them that hate me see it and be ashamed; because you, O Lord, have helped me, and comforted me.

Psalm 86 (87)

¹His foundations are in the holy mountains. ²The Lord loves the gates of Sion, more than all the tabernacles of Jacob. ³Glorious things have been spoken of you, O city of God. Pause. ⁴I will make mention of Raab and Babylon to them that know me: behold also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these were born there. ⁵A man shall say, Sion is my mother; and such a man was born in her; and the Highest himself has founded her. ⁶The Lord shall recount it in the writing of the people, and of these princes that were born in her. ⁷The dwelling of all within you is as the dwelling of those that rejoice.

Psalm 87 (88)

¹O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before you. ²Let my prayer come in before you; incline your ear to my supplication, O Lord. ³For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn near to Hades. ⁴I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help; ⁵free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom you remember no more; and they are rejected from your hand. ⁶They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, and in the shadow of death. ⁷Your wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and you have brought upon me all your billows. Pause. ⁸You have removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth. ⁹My eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to you, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to you. ¹⁰Will you work wonders for the dead? or shall physicians raise them up, that they shall praise you? ¹¹Shall any one declare your mercy in the tomb? and your truth in destruction? ¹²Shall your wonders be known in darkness? and your righteousness in a forgotten land? ¹³But I cried to you, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you. ¹⁴Therefore, O Lord, do you reject my prayer, and turn your face away from me? ¹⁵I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair. ¹⁶Your wrath has passed over me; and your terrors have greatly disquieted me. ¹⁷They compassed me like water; all the day they beset me together. ¹⁸You have put far from me every friend, and my acquaintances because of my wretchedness.

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 88 (89)

¹I will sing of your mercies, O Lord, for ever: I will declare your truth with my mouth to all generations. ²For you have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your truth shall be established in the heavens. ³I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I swore to David my servant. ⁴I will establish your seed for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Pause. ⁵The heavens shall declare your wonders, O Lord; and your truth in the assembly of the saints. ⁶For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? and who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God? ⁷God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about him. ⁸O Lord God of hosts, who is like to you? you are mighty, O Lord, and your truth is round about you. ⁹You rule the power of the sea; and you calm the tumult of its waves. ¹⁰You have brought down the proud as one that is slain; and with the arm of your power you have scattered your enemies. ¹¹The heavens are your, and the earth is your: you have founded the world, and the fullness of it. ¹²You have created the north and the west: Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name. ¹³Your is the mighty arm: let your hand be strengthened, let your right hand be exalted. ¹⁴Justice and judgment are the establishment of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face. ¹⁵Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance. ¹⁶And in your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted. ¹⁷For you are the boast of their strength; and in your good pleasure shall our horn be exalted, ¹⁸for our help is of the Lord; and of the Holy One of Israel, our king. ¹⁹Then you spoke in vision to your children, and said, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of my people. ²⁰I have found David my servant; I have anointed him by my holy mercy. ²¹For my hand shall support him; and my arm shall strengthen him. ²²The enemy shall have no advantage against him; and the son of transgression shall not hurt him again. ²³And I will hew down his foes before him, and put to flight those that hate him. ²⁴But my truth and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted. ²⁵And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. ²⁶He shall call upon me, saying, You are my Father, my God, and the helper of my salvation. ²⁷And I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. ²⁸I will keep my mercy for him for ever, and my covenant shall be firm with him. ²⁹And I will establish his seed for ever and ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. ³⁰If his children should forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; ³¹if they should profane my ordinances, and not keep my commandments; ³²I will visit their transgressions with a rod, and their sins with scourges. ³³But my mercy I will not utterly remove from him, nor wrong my truth. ³⁴Neither will I by any means profane my covenant; and I will not make void the things that proceed out of my lips. ³⁵Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie to David. ³⁶His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me; ³⁷and as the moon that is established for ever, and as the faithful witness in heaven. Pause. ³⁸But you have cast off and set at nothing, you have rejected your anointed. ³⁹You have overthrown the covenant of your servant; you have profaned his sanctuary, casting it to the ground. ⁴⁰You have broken down all his hedges; you have made his strong holds a terror. ⁴¹All that go by the way have spoiled him: he is become a reproach to his neighbors. ⁴²You have exalted the right hand of his enemies; you have made all his enemies to rejoice. ⁴³You have turned back the help of his sword, and have not helped him in the battle. ⁴⁴You have deprived him of glory: you have broken down his throne to the ground. ⁴⁵You have shortened the days of his throne: you have poured shame upon him. Pause. ⁴⁶How long, O Lord, will you turn away, for ever? shall your anger flame out as fire? ⁴⁷Remember what my being is: for have you created all the sons of men in vain? ⁴⁸What man is there who shall live, and not see death? shall any one deliver his soul from the hand of Hades? Pause. ⁴⁹Where are your ancient mercies, O Lord, which you swore to David in your truth? ⁵⁰Remember, O Lord, the reproach of your servants, which I have borne in my bosom, even the reproach of many nations; ⁵¹wherewith your enemies have reviled, O Lord: wherewith they have reviled the recompense of your anointed. ⁵²Blessed be the Lord for ever. So be it, so be it.

Stasis III

Psalm 89 (90)

¹Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations. ²Before the mountains existed, and before the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, You are. ³Turn not man back to his low place, whereas you said, Return, you sons of men? ⁴For a thousand years in your sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night. ⁵Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass. ⁶In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up. ⁷For we have perished in your anger, and in your wrath we have been troubled. ⁸You have set our transgressions before you: our age is in the light of your countenance. ⁹For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in your wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider. ¹⁰As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened. ¹¹Who knows the power of your wrath? ¹²and who knows how to number his days because of the fear of your wrath? So manifest your right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart. ¹³Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated concerning your servants. ¹⁴We have been satisfied in the morning with your mercy; and we did exult and rejoice: ¹⁵let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein you did afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil. ¹⁶And look upon your servants, and upon your works; and guide their children. ¹⁷And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do you direct for us the works of our hands.

Psalm 90 (91)

¹He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven. ²He shall say to the Lord, You are my helper and my refuge: my God; I will hope in him. ³For he shall deliver you from the snare of the hunters, from every troublesome matter. ⁴He shall overshadow you with his shoulders, and you shall trust under his wings: his truth shall cover you with a shield. ⁵You shall not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day; ⁶nor of the evil thing that walks in darkness; nor of calamity, and the evil spirit at noon-day. ⁷A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. ⁸Only with your eyes shall you observe and see the reward of sinners. ⁹For you, O Lord, are my hope: you, my soul, have made the Most High your refuge. ¹⁰No evils shall come upon you, and no scourge shall draw near to your dwelling. ¹¹For he shall give his angels charge concerning you, to keep you in all your ways. ¹²They shall bear you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone. ¹³You shall tread on the asp and basilisk: and you shall trample on the lion and dragon. ¹⁴For he has hoped in me, and I will deliver him: I will protect him, because he has known my name. ¹⁵He shall call upon me, and I will listen to him: I am with him in affliction; and I will deliver him, and glorify him. ¹⁶I will satisfy him with length of days, and show him my salvation.

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