Kathisma VI

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 37 (38)

¹O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger. ²For your weapons are fixed in me, and you have pressed your hand heavily upon me. ³For there is no health in my flesh because of your anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins. ⁴For my transgressions have gone over my head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden. ⁵My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. ⁶I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day. ⁷For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh. ⁸I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart. ⁹But all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you. ¹⁰My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of my eyes is not with me. ¹¹My friends and my neighbors drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off. ¹²While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day. ¹³But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and was as a dumb man not opening his mouth. ¹⁴And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth. ¹⁵For I hoped in you, O Lord: you will hear, O Lord my God. ¹⁶For I said, Lest my enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me. ¹⁷For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me. ¹⁸For I will declare my iniquity, and be distressed for my sin. ¹⁹But my enemies live, and are mightier than I: and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied. ²⁰They that reward evil for good slandered me; because I followed righteousness. ²¹Forsake me not, O Lord my God: depart not from me. ²²Draw near to my help, O Lord of my salvation.

Psalm 38 (39)

¹I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence. ²I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; and my grief was renewed. ³My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue, ⁴O Lord, make me to know my end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack. ⁵Behold, you have made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before you: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause. ⁶Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them. ⁷And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? and my ground of hope is with you. Pause. ⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions: you have made me a reproach to the foolish. ⁹I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for you are he that made me. ¹⁰Remove your scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of your hand. ¹¹You chasten man with rebukes for iniquity, and you make his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause. ¹²O Lord, listen to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers were. ¹³Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.

Psalm 39 (40)

¹I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and listened to my supplication. ²And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright. ³And he put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall hope in the Lord. ⁴Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has not regarded vanities and false frenzies. ⁵O Lord my God, you have multiplied your wonderful works, and in your thoughts there is none who shall be likened to you: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number. ⁶Sacrifice and offering you would not; but a body have you prepared me: whole burnt offering and sacrifice for sin you did not require. ⁷Then I said, Behold, I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me, ⁸I desired to do your will, O my God, and your law in the midst of my heart. ⁹I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, you know my righteousness. ¹⁰I have not hid your truth within my heart, and I have declared your salvation; I have not hid your mercy and your truth from the great congregation. ¹¹But you, Lord, remove not your compassion far from me; your mercy and your truth have helped me continually. ¹²For innumerable evils have encompassed me; my transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; they are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; and my heart has failed me. ¹³Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, draw near to help me. ¹⁴Let those that seek my soul, to destroy it, be ashamed and confounded together; let those that wish me evil be turned backward and put to shame. ¹⁵Let those that say to me, Aha, aha, quickly receive shame for their reward. ¹⁶Let all those that seek you, O Lord, exult and rejoice in you; and let them that love your salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified. ¹⁷But I am poor and needy; the Lord will take care of me; you are my helper, and my defender, O my God, delay not.

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 40 (41)

¹Blessed is the man who thinks, on the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day. ²May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy. ³May the Lord help him upon the bed of his pain; you have made all his bed in his sickness. ⁴I said, O Lord, have mercy upon me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against you. ⁵Mine enemies have spoken evil against me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish? ⁶And if he came to see me, his heart spoke vainly; he gathered iniquity to himself; he went forth and spoke in like manner. ⁷All my enemies whispered against me; against me they devised my hurt. ⁸They denounced a wicked word against me, saying, Now that he lies, shall he not rise up again? ⁹For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁰But you, O Lord, have compassion upon me, and raise me up, and I shall requite them. ¹¹By this I know that you have delighted in me, because my enemy shall not rejoice over me. ¹²But you did help me because of my innocence, and have established me before you for ever. ¹³Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. So be it, so be it.

Psalm 41 (42)

¹As the hart earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for you, O God. ²My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? ³My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is your God? ⁴I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of your wondrous tabernacle, even to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival. ⁵Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the salvation of my countenance. ⁶O my God, my soul has been troubled within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Ermonites, from the little hill. ⁷Deep calls to deep at the voice of your cataracts: all your billows and your waves have gone over me. ⁸By day the Lord will command his mercy, and manifest it by night: with me is prayer to the God of my life. ⁹I will say to God, You are my helper; why have you forgotten me? therefore do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me? ¹⁰While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God? ¹¹Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 42 (43)

¹Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. ²For you, O God, are my strength: therefore have you cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me? ³Send forth your light and your truth: they have led me, and brought me to your holy mountain, and to your tabernacles. ⁴And I will go in to the altar of God, to God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to you on the harp, O God, my God. ⁵Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Stasis III

Psalm 43 (44)

¹O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which you wrought in their days, in the days of old. ²Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did afflict the nations, and cast them out. ³For they inherited not the land by their own sword, and their own arm did not deliver them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you were well pleased in them. ⁴You are indeed my King and my God, who command deliverances for Jacob. ⁵In you will we push down our enemies, and in your name will we bring to nothing them that rise up against us. ⁶For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me. ⁷For you have saved us from them that afflicted us, and have put to shame them that hated us. ⁸In God will we make our boast all the day, and to your name will we give thanks for ever. Pause. ⁹But now you have cast off, and put us to shame; and you will not go forth with our hosts. ¹⁰You have turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves. ¹¹You made us as sheep for meat; and you scattered us among the nations. ¹²You have sold your people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange. ¹³You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision them that are round about us. ¹⁴You have made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations. ¹⁵All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me, ¹⁶because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger. ¹⁷All these things are come upon us: but we have not forgotten you, neither have we dealt unrighteously in your covenant. ¹⁸And our heart has not gone back; but you have turned aside our paths from your way. ¹⁹For you have laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us. ²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out? ²¹for he knows the secrets of the heart. ²²For, for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter. ²³Awake, therefore sleep you, O Lord? arise, and do not cast us off for ever. ²⁴Therefore turn you your face away, and forget our poverty and our affliction? ²⁵For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth. ²⁶Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for your name's sake.

Psalm 44 (45)

¹My heart has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: my tongue is the pen of a quick writer. ²You are more beautiful than the sons of men: grace has been shed forth on your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever. ³Gird your sword upon your thigh, O Mighty One, in your comeliness, and in your beauty; ⁴and bend your bow, and prosper, and reign, because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall guide you wonderfully. ⁵Your weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under you) they are in the heart of the king's enemies. ⁶Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness. ⁷You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your fellows. ⁸Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia are exhaled from your garments, and out of the ivory palaces, ⁹with which kings' daughters have gladdened you for your honor: the queen stood by on your right hand, clothed in vesture wrought with gold, and arrayed in various colors. ¹⁰Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear; forget also your people, and your father's house. ¹¹Because the king has desired your beauty; for he is your Lord. ¹²And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with gifts; the rich of the people of the land shall supplicate your favor. ¹³All her glory is that of the daughter of the king of Esebon, robed as she is in golden fringed garments, ¹⁴in embroidered clothing: virgins shall be brought to the king after her: her fellows shall be brought to you. ¹⁵They shall be brought with gladness and exultation: they shall be led into the king's temple. ¹⁶Instead of your fathers children are born to you: you shall make them princes over all the earth. ¹⁷They shall make mention of your name from generation to generation: therefore shall the nations give thanks to you for ever, even for ever and ever.

Psalm 45 (46)

¹God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us. ²Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas. ³Their waters have roared and been troubled, the mountains have been troubled by his might. Pause. ⁴The flowings of the river gladden the city of God: the Most High has sanctified his tabernacle. ⁵God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her with his countenance. ⁶The nations were troubled, the kingdoms tottered: he uttered his voice, the earth shook. ⁷The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper. Pause. ⁸Come, and behold the works of the Lord, what wonders he has achieved on the earth. ⁹Putting an end to wars as for the ends of the earth; he will crush the bow, and break in pieces the weapon, and burn the bucklers with fire. ¹⁰Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. ¹¹The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper.

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