Kathisma XI

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 77 (78)

¹Give heed, O my people, to my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth. ²I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings which have been from the beginning. ³All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us. ⁴They were not hid from their children to a second generations; the fathers declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty acts, and his wonders which he wrought. ⁵And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children: ⁶that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children. ⁷That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments. ⁸That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God. ⁹The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow, turned back in the day of battle. ¹⁰They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law. ¹¹And they forgot his benefits, and his miracles which he had showed them; ¹²the miracles which he wrought before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanes. ¹³He clave the sea, and led them through: he made the waters to stand as in a bottle. ¹⁴And he guided them with a cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire. ¹⁵he clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep. ¹⁶And he brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers. ¹⁷And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness. ¹⁸And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for the desire of their souls. ¹⁹They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness? ²⁰Forasmuch as he struck the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will he be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for his people? ²¹Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath went up against Israel. ²²Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation. ²³Yet he commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, ²⁴and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven. ²⁵Man ate angels' bread; he sent them provision to the full. ²⁶He removed the south wind from heaven; and by his might he brought in the southwest wind. ²⁷And he rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the seas. ²⁸And they fell into the midst of their camp, round about their tents. ²⁹So they ate, and were completely filled; and he gave them their desire. ³⁰They were not disappointed of their desire: but when their food was yet in their mouth, ³¹then the indignation of God rose up against them, and killed the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel. ³²In the midst of all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his miracles. ³³And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety. ³⁴When he killed them, they sought him: and they returned and called betimes upon God. ³⁵And they remembered that God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer. ³⁶Yet they loved him only with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. ³⁷For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant. ³⁸But he is compassionate, and will forgive their sins, and will not destroy them: yes, he will frequently turn away his wrath, and will not kindle all his anger. ³⁹And he remembered that they are flesh; a wind that passes away, and returns not. ⁴⁰How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and anger him in a dry land! ⁴¹Yes, they turned back, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. ⁴²They remembered not his hand, the day in which he delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. ⁴³How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanes: ⁴⁴and had changed their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they should not drink. ⁴⁵He sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it spoiled them. ⁴⁶And he gave their fruit to the canker worm, and their labors to the locust. ⁴⁷He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost. ⁴⁸And he gave up their cattle to hail, and their substance to the fire. ⁴⁹He sent out against them the fury of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and affliction, a message by evil angels. ⁵⁰He made a way for his wrath; he spared not their souls from death, but consigned their cattle to death; ⁵¹and struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt; the first fruits of their labors in the tents of Cham. ⁵²And he removed his people like sheep; he led them as a flock in the wilderness. ⁵³And he guided them with hope, and they feared not: but the sea covered their enemies. ⁵⁴And he brought them in to the mountain of his sanctuary, this mountain which his right hand had purchased. ⁵⁵And he cast out the nations from before them, and made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. ⁵⁶Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies. ⁵⁷And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers: they became like a crooked bow. ⁵⁸And they provoked him with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. ⁵⁹God heard and lightly regarded them, and greatly despised Israel. ⁶⁰And he rejected the tabernacle of Selom, his tent where he lived among men. ⁶¹And he gave their strength into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand. ⁶²And he gave his people to the sword; and disdained his inheritance. ⁶³Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins mourned not. ⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows shall not be wept for. ⁶⁵So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and as a mighty man who has been heated with wine. ⁶⁶And he struck his enemies in the hinder parts: he brought on them a perpetual reproach. ⁶⁷And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim; ⁶⁸but chose the tribe of Juda, the mount Sion which he loved. ⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary as the place of unicorns; he founded it for ever on the earth. ⁷⁰He chose David also his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep. ⁷¹He took him from following the ewes great with young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance. ⁷²So he tended them in the innocency of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

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 78 (79)

¹O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits. ²They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth. ³They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. ⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. ⁵How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire? ⁶Pour out your wrath upon the heathen that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms which have not called upon your name. ⁷For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste. ⁸Remember not our old transgressions; let your tender mercies speedily prevent us; for we are greatly impoverished. ⁹Help us, O God our Saviour; for the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us; and be merciful to our sins, for your name's sake. ¹⁰Lest haply they should say among the heathen, Where is their God? and let the avenging of your servant's blood that has been shed be known among the heathen before our eyes. ¹¹Let the groaning of the prisoners come in before you; according to the greatness of your arm preserve the sons of the slain ones. ¹²Repay to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached you, O Lord. ¹³For we are your people and the sheep of your pasture; we will give you thanks for ever; we will declare your praise throughout all generations.

Psalm 79 (80)

¹Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guide Joseph like a flock; you who sit upon the cherubs, manifest yourself; ²before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us. ³Turn us, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be delivered. ⁴O Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry with the prayer of your servant? ⁵You will feed us with bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure. ⁶You have made us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies have mocked at us. ⁷Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause. ⁸You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it. ⁹You made a way before it, and did cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it. ¹⁰Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots equalled the goodly cedars. ¹¹It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river. ¹²Therefore have you broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it? ¹³The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it. ¹⁴O God of hosts, turn, we pray you: look on us from heaven, and behold and visit this vine; ¹⁵and restore that which your right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself. ¹⁶It is burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of your presence. ¹⁷Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, and upon the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself. ¹⁸So will we not depart from you: you shall quicken us, and we will call upon your name. ¹⁹Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make your face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Psalm 80 (81)

¹Rejoice you in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob. ²Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant lute with the harp. ³Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast. ⁴For this is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob. ⁵He made it to be a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard a language which he understood not. ⁶He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets. ⁷You did call upon me in trouble, and I delivered you; I heard you in the secret place of the storm: I proved you at the water of Strife. Pause. ⁸Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel; and I will testify to you: if you will listen to me; ⁹there shall be no new god in you; neither shall you worship a strange god. ¹⁰For I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. ¹¹But my people listened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me. ¹²So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go on in their own ways. ¹³If my people had listened to me, if Israel had walked in my ways, ¹⁴I should have put down their enemies very quickly, and should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them. ¹⁵The Lord's enemies should have lied to him: but their time shall be for ever. ¹⁶And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.

Stasis III

Psalm 81 (82)

¹God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst of them will judge gods. ²How long will you judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause. ³Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy. ⁴Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner. ⁵They know not, nor understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken. ⁶I have said, You are gods; and all of you children of the Most High. ⁷But you die as men, and fall as one of the princes. ⁸Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.

Psalm 82 (83)

¹O God, who shall be compared to you? be not silent, neither be still, O God. ²For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head. ³Against your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against your saints. ⁴They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all. ⁵For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against you; ⁶even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes; ⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre. ⁸Yes, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause. ⁹Do you to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison. ¹⁰They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth. ¹¹Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; even all their princes: ¹²who said, let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance. ¹³O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind. ¹⁴As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains; ¹⁵so shall you persecute them with your tempest, and trouble them in your anger. ¹⁶Fill their faces with dishonor; so shall they seek your name, O Lord. ¹⁷Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yes, let them be confounded and destroyed. ¹⁸And let them know that your name is Lord; that you alone are Most High over all the earth.

Psalm 83 (84)

¹How amiable are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! ²My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living god. ³Yes, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God. ⁴Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will praise you evermore. Pause. ⁵Blessed is the man whose help is of you, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up ⁶the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for there the law-giver will grant blessings. ⁷They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion. ⁸O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: listen, O God of Jacob. Pause. ⁹Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of your anointed. ¹⁰For one day in your courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners. ¹¹For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence. ¹²O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.

Psalm 84 (85)

¹O Lord, you have taken pleasure in your land: you have turned back the captivity of Jacob. ²You have forgiven your people their transgressions; you have covered all their sins. Pause. ³You have caused all your wrath to cease: you have turned from your fierce anger. ⁴Turn us, O God of our salvation, and turn your anger away from us. ⁵Wouldest you be angry with us for ever? or will you continue your wrath from generation to generation? ⁶O God, you will turn and quicken us; and your people shall rejoice in you. ⁷Show us your mercy, O Lord, and grant us your salvation. ⁸I will hear what the Lord God will say concerning me: for he shall speak peace to his people, and to his saints, and to those that turn their heart toward him. ⁹Moreover his salvation is near them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. ¹⁰Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other. ¹¹Truth has sprung out of the earth; and righteousness has looked down from heaven. ¹²For the Lord will give goodness; and our land shall yield her fruit. ¹³Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set his steps in the way.

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