Kathisma III

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 17 (18)

¹I will love you, O Lord, my strength. ²The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; he is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper. ³I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from my enemies. ⁴The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly. ⁵The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me. ⁶And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, even into his ears. ⁷Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them. ⁸There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it. ⁹And he bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet. ¹⁰And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds. ¹¹And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air. ¹²At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire. ¹³The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice. ¹⁴And he sent forth his weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them. ¹⁵And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of your wrath. ¹⁶He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters. ¹⁷He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I. ¹⁸They prevented me in the day of my affliction: but the Lord was my stay against them. ¹⁹And he brought me out into a wide place: he will deliver me, because he has pleasure in me. ²⁰And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me. ²¹For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²²For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me. ²³And I shall be blameless with him, and shall keep myself from my iniquity. ²⁴And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes. ²⁵With the holy you will be holy; and with the innocent man you will be innocent. ²⁶And with the excellent man you will be excellent; and with the perverse you will show frowardness. ²⁷For you will save the lowly people, and will humble the eyes of the proud. ²⁸For you, O Lord, will light my lamp: my God, you will lighten my darkness. ²⁹For by you shall I be delivered from a troop; and by my God I will pass over a wall. ³⁰As for my God, his way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; he is a protector of all them that hope in him. ³¹For who is God but the Lord? and who is a God except our God? ³²It is God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless: ³³who strengthens my feet as hart's feet, and sets me upon high places. ³⁴He instructs my hands for war: and you have made my arms as a brazen bow. ³⁵And you have made me secure in my salvation: and your right hand has helped me, and your correction has upheld me to the end; yes, your correction itself shall instruct me. ³⁶You have made room for my goings under me, and by footsteps did not fail. ³⁷I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them; and I will not turn back until they are consumed. ³⁸I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet. ³⁹For you have girded me with strength for war: you have beaten down under me all that rose up against me. ⁴⁰And you have made my enemies turn their backs before me; and you have destroyed them that hated me. ⁴¹They cried, but there was no deliverer: even to the Lord, but he listened not to them. ⁴²I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind. ⁴³Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people: you shall make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me, ⁴⁴at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children lied to me. ⁴⁵The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness. ⁴⁶The Lord lives; and blessed be my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. ⁴⁷It is God that avenges me, and has subdued the nations under me; ⁴⁸my deliverer from angry enemies: you shall set me on high above them that rise up against me: you shall deliver me from the unrighteous man. ⁴⁹Therefore will I confess to you, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing to your name. ⁵⁰God magnifies the deliverances of his king; and deals mercifully with David his anointed, and his seed, for ever.

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 18 (19)

¹The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands. ²Day to day utters speech, and night to night proclaims knowledge. ³There are no speeches or words, in which their voices are not heard. ⁴Their voice is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. ⁵In the sun he has set his tabernacle; and he comes forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber: he will exult as a giant to run his course. ⁶His going forth is from the extremity of heaven, and his circuit to the other end of heaven: and no one shall be hidden from his heat. ⁷The law of the Lord is perfect, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, instructing babes. ⁸The ordinances of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is bright, enlightening the eyes. ⁹The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring for ever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, and justified altogether. ¹⁰To be desired more than gold, and much precious stone: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb. ¹¹For your servant keeps to them: in the keeping of them there is great reward. ¹²Who will understand his transgressions? purge you me from my secret sins. ¹³And spare your servant the attack of strangers: if they do not gain the dominion over me, then shall I be blameless, and I shall be clear from great sin. ¹⁴So shall the sayings of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing continually before you, O Lord my helper, and my redeemer.

Psalm 19 (20)

¹The Lord hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you. ²Send you help from the sanctuary, and aid you out of Sion. ³Remember all your sacrifice, and enrich your whole burnt offering. Pause. ⁴Grant you according to your heart, and fulfill all your desire. ⁵We will exult in your salvation, and in the name of our God shall we be magnified: the Lord fulfil all your petitions. ⁶Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ: he shall hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is mighty. ⁷Some glory in chariots, and some in horses: but we will glory in the name of the Lord our God. ⁸They are overthrown and fallen: but we are risen, and have been set upright. ⁹O Lord, save the king: and hear us in whatever day we call upon you.

Psalm 20 (21)

¹O Lord, the king shall rejoice in your strength; and in your salvation he shall greatly exult. ²You have granted him the desire of his soul, and have not withheld from him the request of his lips. Pause. ³For you have prevented him with blessings of goodness: you have set upon his head a crown of precious stone. ⁴He asked life of you, and you gave him length of days for ever and ever. ⁵His glory is great in your salvation: you will crown him with glory and majesty. ⁶For you will give him a blessing for ever and ever: you will gladden him with joy with your countenance. ⁷For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Highest he shall not be moved. ⁸Let your hand be found by all your enemies: let your right hand find all that hate you. ⁹You shall make them as a fiery oven at the time of your presence: the Lord shall trouble them in his anger, and fire shall devour them. ¹⁰You shall destroy their fruit from the earth, and their seed from among the sons of men. ¹¹For they intended evils against you; they imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform. ¹²For you shall make them turn their back in your latter end, you will prepare their face. ¹³Be you exalted, O Lord, in your strength: we will sing and praise your mighty acts.

Stasis III

Psalm 21 (22)

¹O God, my God, attend to me: why have you forsaken me? the account of my transgressions is far from my salvation. ²O my God, I will cry to you by day, but you will not hear: and by night, and it shall not be accounted for folly to me. ³But you, the praise of Israel, dwell in a sanctuary. ⁴Our fathers hoped in you; they hoped, and you did deliver them. ⁵They cried to you, and were saved: they hoped in you, and were not ashamed. ⁶But I am a worm, and not a man; a reproach of men, and scorn of the people. ⁷All that saw me mocked me: they spoke with their lips, they shook the head, saying, ⁸He hoped in the Lord: let him deliver him, let him save him, because he takes pleasure in him. ⁹For you are he that drew me out of the womb; my hope from my mother's breasts. ¹⁰I was cast on you from the womb: you are my God from my mother's belly. ¹¹Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near; for there is no helper. ¹²Many bullocks have compassed me: fat bulls have beset me round. ¹³They have opened their mouth against me, as a ravening and roaring lion. ¹⁴I am poured out like water, and all my bones are loosened: my heart in the midst of my belly is become like melting wax. ¹⁵My strength is dried up, like a potsherd; and my tongue is glued to my throat; and you have brought me down to the dust of death. ¹⁶For many dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked doers has beset me round: they pierced my hands and my feet. ¹⁷They counted all my bones; and they observed and looked upon me. ¹⁸They parted my garments among themselves, and cast lots upon my raiment. ¹⁹But you, O Lord, remove not my help afar off: be ready for my aid. ²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword; my only-begotten one from the power of the dog. ²¹Save me from the lion's mouth; and regard my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns. ²²I will declare your name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I sing praise to you. ²³You that fear the Lord, praise him; all you seed of Jacob, glorify him: let all the seed of Israel fear him. ²⁴For he has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned away his face from me; but when I cried to him, he heard me. ²⁵My praise is of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. ²⁶The poor shall eat and be satisfied; and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their heart shall live for ever. ²⁷All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord: and all the kindred of the nations shall worship before him. ²⁸For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he is the governor of the nations. ²⁹All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and worshipped: all that go down to the earth shall fall down before him: my soul also lives to him. ³⁰And my seed shall serve him: the generation that is coming shall be reported to the Lord. ³¹And they shall report his righteousness to the people that shall be born, whom the Lord has made.

Psalm 22 (23)

¹The Lord tends me as a shepherd, and I shall lack nothing. ²In a place of green grass, there he has made me dwell: he has nourished me by the water of rest. ³He has restored my soul: he has guided me into the paths of righteousness, for his name's sake. ⁴Yes, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid of evils: for you are with me; your rod and your staff, these have comforted me. ⁵You have prepared a table before me in presence of them that afflict me: you have thoroughly anointed my head with oil; and your cup cheers me like the best wine. ⁶Your mercy also shall follow me all the days of my life: and my dwelling shall be in the house of the Lord for a very long time.

Psalm 23 (24)

¹The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof; the world, and all that dwell in it. ²He has founded it upon the seas, and prepared it upon the rivers. ³Who shall go up to the mountain of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place? ⁴He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor. ⁵He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour. ⁶This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek the face of the God of Jacob. Pause. ⁷Lift up your gates, you princes, and be you lifted up, you everlasting doors; and the king of glory shall come in. ⁸Who is this king of Glory? the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. ⁹Lift up your gates, you princes; and be you lift up, you everlasting doors; and the king of glory shall come in. ¹⁰Who is this king of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is this king of glory.

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