Kathisma XIII

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 91 (92)

¹It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O you Most High; ²to proclaim your mercy in the morning, and your truth by night, ³on a lute of ten strings, with a song on the harp. ⁴For you, O Lord, have made me glad with your work: and in the operations of your hands will I exult. ⁵How have your works been magnified, O Lord! your thoughts are very deep. ⁶A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this. ⁷When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; it is that they may be utterly destroyed for ever. ⁸But you, O Lord, are most high for ever. ⁹For, behold, your enemies shall perish; and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. ¹⁰But my horn shall be exalted as the horn of a unicorn; and my old age with rich mercy. ¹¹And my eye has seen my enemies, and my ear shall hear the wicked that rise up against me. ¹²The righteous shall flourish as a palm tree: he shall be increased as the cedar in Libanus. ¹³They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. ¹⁴Then shall they be increased in a fine old age; and they shall be prosperous; that they may declare ¹⁵that the Lord my God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

Psalm 92 (93)

¹The Lord reigns; he has clothed himself with honor: the Lord has clothed and girded himself with strength; for he has established the world, which shall not be moved. ²Your throne is prepared of old: you are from everlasting. ³The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices, ⁴at the voices of many waters: the billows of the sea are wonderful: the Lord is wonderful in high places. ⁵Your testimonies are made very sure: holiness becomes your house, O Lord, for ever.

Psalm 93 (94)

¹The Lord is a God of vengeance; the God of vengeance has declared himself. ²Be you exalted, you that judge the earth: render a reward to the proud. ³How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast? ⁴They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity will speak so. ⁵They have afflicted your people, O Lord, and hurt your heritage. ⁶They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger. ⁷And they said, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand. ⁸Understand now, you simple among the people; and you fools, at length be wise. ⁹He that planted the ear, does he not hear? or he that formed the eye, does not he perceive? ¹⁰He that chastises the heathen, shall not he punish, even he that teaches man knowledge? ¹¹The Lord knows the thoughts of men, that they are vain. ¹²Blessed is the man whoever you shall chasten, O Lord, and shall teach him out of your law; ¹³to give him rest from evil days, until a pit be digged for the sinful one. ¹⁴For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance; ¹⁵until righteousness return to judgment, and all the upright in heart shall follow it. Pause. ¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the transgressors? or who will stand up with me against the workers of iniquity? ¹⁷If the Lord had not helped me, my soul had almost sojourned in Hades. ¹⁸If I said, My foot has been moved; ¹⁹your mercy, O Lord, helped me. O Lord, according to the multitude of my griefs within my heart, your consolation have soothed my soul. ²⁰Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by an ordinance? ²¹They will hunt for the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood. ²²But the Lord was my refuge; and my God the helper of my hope. ²³And he will recompense to them their iniquity and their wickedness: the Lord our God shall utterly destroy them.

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 94 (95)

¹Come, let us exult in the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to God our Saviour. ²Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms. ³For the Lord is a great God, and a great king over all gods: for the Lord will not cast off his people. ⁴For the ends of the earth are in his hands; and the heights of the mountains are his. ⁵For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. ⁶Come, let us worship and fall down before him; and weep before the Lord that made us. ⁷For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. ⁸To-day, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of irritation in the wilderness: ⁹where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works. ¹⁰Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. ¹¹So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

Psalm 95 (96)

¹Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. ²Sing to the Lord, bless his name: proclaim his salvation from day to day. ³Publish his glory among the Gentiles, his wonderful works among all people. ⁴For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is terrible above all gods. ⁵For all the gods of the heathen are devils: but the Lord made the heavens. ⁶Thanksgiving and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty are in his sanctuary. ⁷Bring to the Lord, you families of the Gentiles, bring to the Lord glory and honor. ⁸Bring to the Lord the glory becoming his name: take offerings, and go into his courts. ⁹Worship the Lord in his holy court: let all the earth tremble before him. ¹⁰Say among the heathen, The Lord reigns: for he has established the world so that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people in righteousness. ¹¹Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth exult; let the sea be moved, and the fullness of it. ¹²The plains shall rejoice, and all things in them: then shall all the trees of the wood exult before the presence of the Lord: ¹³for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth; he shall judge the world in righteousness, and the people with his truth.

Psalm 96 (97)

¹The Lord reigns, let the earth exult, let many islands rejoice. ²Cloud, and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the establishment of his throne. ³Fire shall go before him, and burn up his enemies round about. ⁴His lightnings appeared to the world; the earth saw, and trembled. ⁵The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. ⁶The heavens have declared his righteousness, and all the people have seen his glory. ⁷Let all that worship graven images be ashamed, who boast of their idols; worship him, all you his angels. ⁸Sion heard and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judea exulted, because of your judgments, O Lord. ⁹For you are Lord most high over all the earth; you are greatly exalted above all gods. ¹⁰You that love the Lord, hate evil; the Lord preserves the souls of his saints; he shall deliver them from the hand of sinners. ¹¹Light is sprung up for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. ¹²Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous; and give thanks for a remembrance of his holiness.

Stasis III

Psalm 97 (98)

¹Sing to the Lord a new song; for the Lord has wrought wonderful works, his right hand, and his holy arm, have wrought salvation for him. ²The Lord has made known his salvation, he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. ³He has remembered his mercy to Jacob, and his truth to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. ⁴Shout to God, all the earth; sing, and exult, and sing psalms. ⁵Sing to the Lord with a harp, with a harp, and the voice of a psalm. ⁶With trumpets of metal, and the sound of a trumpet of horn make a joyful noise to the Lord before the king. ⁷Let the sea be moved, and the fullness of it; the world, and they that dwell in it. ⁸The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult. ⁹For he is come to judge the earth; he shall judge the world in righteousness, and the nations in uprightness.

Psalm 98 (99)

¹The Lord reigns; —let the people rage; it is he that sits upon the cherubs, let the earth be moved. ²The Lord is great in Sion, and is high over all the people. ³Let them give thanks to your great name; for it is terrible and holy. ⁴And the king's honor loves judgment; you have prepared equity, you have wrought judgment and justice in Jacob. ⁵Exalt you the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy. ⁶Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the Lord, and he heard them. ⁷He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies, and the ordinances which he gave them. ⁸O Lord our God, you heard them; O God, you became propitious to them, though you did take vengeance on all their devices. ⁹Exalt you the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy.

Psalm 99 (100)

¹Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. ²Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with exultation. ³Know that the Lord he is God; he made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. ⁴Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with hymns; give thanks to him, praise his name. ⁵For the Lord is good, his mercy is for ever; and his truth endures to generation and generation.

Psalm 100 (101)

¹I will sing to you, O Lord, of mercy and judgment; I will sing a psalm, ²and I will be wise in a blameless way. When will you come to me? I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house. ³I have not set before my eyes any unlawful thing; I have hated transgressors. ⁴A perverse heart has not cleaved to me; I have not known an evil man, forasmuch as he turns away from me. ⁵Him that privily speaks against his neighbor, him have I driven from me: he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart, —with him I have not eaten. ⁶My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walked in a perfect way, the same ministered to me. ⁷The proud doer lived not in the midst of my house; the unjust speaker prospered not in my sight. ⁸Early did I kill all the sinners of the land, that I might destroy out of the city of the Lord all that work iniquity.

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