Kathisma XIX

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 134 (135)

¹Praise you the name of the Lord; praise the Lord, you his servants, ²who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. ³Praise you the Lord; for the Lord is good: sing praises to his name; for it is good. ⁴For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure. ⁵For I know that the Lord is great, and our Lord is above all gods; ⁶all that the Lord willed, he did in heaven, and on the earth, in the sea, and in all deeps. ⁷Who brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth: he has made lightnings for the rain: he brings winds out of his treasures. ⁸Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast. ⁹He sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, O Egypt, on Pharao, and on all his servants. ¹⁰Who struck many nations, and killed mighty kings; ¹¹Seon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Basan, and all the kingdoms of Chanaan: ¹²and gave their land for an inheritance, an inheritance to Israel his people. ¹³O Lord, your name endures for ever, and your memorial to all generations. ¹⁴For the Lord shall judge his people, and comfort himself concerning his servants. ¹⁵The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. ¹⁶They have a mouth, but they can’t speak; they have eyes, but they can’t see; ¹⁷they have ears, but they can’t hear; for there is no breath in their mouth. ¹⁸Let those who make them be made like to them; and all those who trust in them. ¹⁹O house of Israel, bless you the Lord: O house of Aaron, bless you the Lord: ²⁰O house of Levi, bless you the Lord: you that fear the Lord, bless the Lord. ²¹Blessed in Sion be the Lord, who dwells in Jerusalem.

Psalm 135 (136)

¹Give thanks to the Lord: for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. ²Give thanks to the God of gods; for his mercy endures for ever. ³Give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endures for ever. ⁴To him who alone has wrought great wonders: for his mercy endures for ever. ⁵To him who made the heavens by understanding; for his mercy endures for ever. ⁶To him who established the earth on the waters; for his mercy endures for ever. ⁷To him who alone made great lights; for his mercy endures for ever. ⁸The sun to rule by day; for his mercy endures for ever. ⁹The moon and the stars to rule the night; for his mercy endures for ever. ¹⁰To him who struck Egypt with their firstborn; for his mercy endures for ever. ¹¹And brought Israel out of the midst of them; for his mercy endures for ever: ¹²with a strong hand, and a high arm: for his mercy endures for ever. ¹³To him who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endures for ever: ¹⁴and brought Israel through the midst of it: for his mercy endures for ever: ¹⁵and overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endures for ever. ¹⁶To him who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endures for ever. ¹⁷To him who struck great kings: for his mercy endures for ever: ¹⁸and killed mighty kings; for his mercy endures for ever: ¹⁹Seon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endures for ever: ²⁰and Og king of Basan: for his mercy endures for ever: ²¹and gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy endures for ever: ²²even an inheritance to Israel his servant: for his mercy endures for ever. ²³For the Lord remembered us in our low estate; for his mercy endures for ever: ²⁴and redeemed us from our enemies; for his mercy endures for ever. ²⁵Who gives food to all flesh; for his mercy endures for ever. ²⁶Give thanks to the God of heaven; for his mercy endures for ever.

Psalm 136 (137)

¹By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; and wept when we remembered Sion. ²We hung our harps on the willows in the midst of it. ³For there they that had taken us captive asked of us the words of a song; and they that had carried us away asked a hymn, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Sion. ⁴How should we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? ⁵If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. ⁶May my tongue cleave to my throat, if I do not remember you; if I do not prefer Jerusalem as the chief of my joy. ⁷Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to its foundations. ⁸Wretched daughter of Babylon! blessed shall he be who shall reward you as you have rewarded us. ⁹Blessed shall he be who shall seize and dash your infants against the rock.

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 137 (138)

¹I will give you thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart; and I will sing psalms to you before the angels; for you have heard all the words of my mouth. ²I will worship toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your name, on account of your mercy and your truth; for you have magnified your holy name above every thing. ³In whatever day I shall call upon you, hear me speedily; you shall abundantly provide me with your power in my soul. ⁴Let all the kings of the earth, o Lord, give thanks to you; for they have heard all the words of your mouth. ⁵And let them sing in the ways of the Lord; for great is the glory of the Lord. ⁶For the Lord is high, and yet regards the lowly; and he knows high things from afar off. ⁷Though I should walk in the midst of affliction, you will quicken me; you have stretched forth your hands against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand has saved me. ⁸O Lord, you shall recompense them on my behalf: your mercy, O Lord, endures for ever: overlook not the works of your hands.

Psalm 138 (139)

¹O Lord, you have proved me, and known me. ²You know my down-sitting and my up-rising: you understand my thoughts long before. ³You have traced my path and my bed, and have foreseen all my ways. ⁴For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, you have known all things, ⁵the last and the first: you have fashioned me, and laid your hand upon me. ⁶The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I can’t attain to it. ⁷Whither shall I go from your Spirit? and whither shall I flee from your presence? ⁸If I should go up to heaven, you are there: if I should go down to hell, you are present. ⁹If I should spread my wings to fly straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, it would be vain, ¹⁰for even there your hand would guide me, and your right hand would hold me. ¹¹When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night was light in my luxury. ¹²For darkness will not be darkness with you; but night will be light as day: as its darkness, so shall its light be to you. ¹³For you, O Lord, have possessed my reins; you have helped me from my mother's womb. ¹⁴I will give you thanks; for you are fearfully wondrous; wondrous are your works; and my soul knows it well. ¹⁵My bones, which you made in secret were not hidden from you, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶Your eyes saw my unwrought substance, and all men shall be written in your book; they shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them. ¹⁷But your friends, O God, have been greatly honored by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened. ¹⁸I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with you. ¹⁹Oh that you would kill the wicked, O God; depart from me, you men of blood. ²⁰For you will say concerning their thought, that they shall take your cities in vain. ²¹Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate you? and wasted away because of your enemies? ²²I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies. ²³Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths; ²⁴and see if there is any way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.

Psalm 139 (140)

¹Rescue me, O Lord, from the evil man; deliver me from the unjust man. ²Who have devised injustice in their hearts; all the day they prepared war. ³They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause. ⁴Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner; rescue me from unjust men; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. ⁵The proud have hid a snare for me, and have stretched out ropes for snares for my feet; they set a stumbling block for me near the path. Pause. ⁶I said to the Lord, You are my God; listen, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication. ⁷O Lord God, the strength of my salvation; you have screened my head in the day of battle. ⁸Deliver me not, O Lord, to the sinner, according to my desire: they have devised mischief against me; forsake me not, lest they should be exalted. Pause. ⁹As for the head of them that compass me, the mischief of their lips shall cover them. ¹⁰Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; and you shall cast them down in afflictions: they shall not bear up under them. ¹¹A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction. ¹²I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the poor, and the right of the needy ones. ¹³Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name: the upright shall dwell in your presence.

Stasis III

Psalm 140 (141)

¹O Lord, I have cried to you; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to you. ²Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice. ³Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips. ⁴Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with those who work iniquity. Let me not unite with their choice ones. ⁵The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures. ⁶Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet. ⁷As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave. ⁸For my eyes are to you, O Lord God: I have hoped in you; take not away my life. ⁹Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity. ¹⁰Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.

Psalm 141 (142)

¹I cried to the Lord with my voice; with my voice I made supplication to the Lord. ²I will pour out before him my supplication: I will declare before him my affliction. ³When my spirit was fainting within me, then you knew my paths; in the very way wherein I was walking, they hid a snare for me. ⁴I looked on my right hand, and behold, for there was none that noticed me; refuge failed me; and there was none that cared for my soul. ⁵I cried to you, O Lord, and said, You are my hope, my portion in the land of the living. ⁶Attend to my supplication, for I am brought very low; deliver me from them that persecute me; for they are stronger than I. ⁷Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name, O Lord; the righteous shall wait for me, until you recompense me.

Psalm 142 (143)

¹O Lord, attend to my prayer: listen to my supplication in your truth; hear me in your righteousness. ²And enter not into judgment with your servant, for in your sight shall no man living be justified. ³For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has brought my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in a dark place, as those that have been long dead. ⁴Therefore my spirit was grieved in me; my heart was troubled within me. ⁵I remembered the days of old; and I meditated on all your doings: yes, I meditated on the works of your hands. ⁶I spread forth my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you, as a dry land. Pause. ⁷Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit has failed; turn not away your face from me, else I shall be like to them that go down to the pit. ⁸Cause me to hear your mercy in the morning; for I have hoped in you; make known to me, O Lord, the way wherein I should walk; for I have lifted up my soul to you. ⁹Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord; for I have fled to you for refuge. ¹⁰Teach me to do your will; for you are my God; your good Spirit shall guide me in the straight way. ¹¹You shall quicken me, O Lord, for your name's sake; in your righteousness you shall bring my soul out of affliction. ¹²And in your mercy you will destroy my enemies, and will destroy all those that afflict my soul; for I am your servant.

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