Kathisma XV

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 105 (106)

¹Give thanks to the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. ²Who shall tell the mighty acts of the Lord? who shall cause all his praises to be heard? ³Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do righteousness at all times. ⁴Remember us, O Lord, with the favor you have to your people: visit us with your salvation; ⁵that we may behold the good of your elect, that we may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that we may glory with your inheritance. ⁶We have sinned with our fathers, we have transgressed, we have done unrighteously. ⁷Our fathers in Egypt understood not your wonders, and remembered not the multitude of your mercy; but provoked him as they went up by the Red Sea. ⁸Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might cause his mighty power to be known. ⁹And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep as through the wilderness. ¹⁰And he saved them out of the hand of them that hated them, and redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy. ¹¹The water covered those that oppressed them: there was not one of them left. ¹²Then they believed his words, and celebrated his praise. ¹³They made haste, they forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel. ¹⁴And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the dry land. ¹⁵And he gave them their request, and sent fullness into their souls. ¹⁶They provoked Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord. ¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and closed upon the congregation of Abiron. ¹⁸And a fire was kindled in their congregation, and a flame burnt up the sinners. ¹⁹And they made a calf in Choreb, and worshipped the graven image, ²⁰and they changed their glory into the similitude of a calf that feeds on grass. ²¹They forgot God that saved them, who had wrought great deeds in Egypt; ²²wondrous works in the land of Cham, and terrible things at the Red Sea. ²³So he said that he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn him away from the fierceness of his anger, so that he should not destroy them. ²⁴Moreover they set at nothing the desirable land, and believed not his word. ²⁵And they murmured in their tents: they listened not to the voice of the Lord. ²⁶So he lifted up his hand against them, to cast them down in the wilderness; ²⁷and to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries. ²⁸They were joined also to Beelphegor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. And they provoked him with their devices; ²⁹and destruction, was multiplied among them. ³⁰Then Phinees stood up, and made atonement: and the plague ceased. ³¹And it was counted to him for righteousness, to all generations for ever. ³²They provoked him also at the water of Strife, and Moses was hurt for their sakes; ³³for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. ³⁴They destroyed not the nations which the Lord told them to destroy; ³⁵but were mingled with the heathen, and learned their works. ³⁶And they served their graven images; and it became an offense to them. ³⁷And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to devils, ³⁸and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan; and the land was defiled with blood. ³⁹and was polluted with their works; and they went a whoring with their own devices. ⁴⁰So the Lord was very angry with his people, and he abhorred his inheritance. ⁴¹And he delivered them into the hands of their enemies; and they that hated them ruled over them. ⁴²Ands their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought down under their hands. ⁴³Many a time he delivered them; but they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities. ⁴⁴You the Lord looked upon their affliction, when he heard their petition. ⁴⁵And he remembered his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercy. ⁴⁶And he caused them to be pitied in the sight of all who carried them captive. ⁴⁷Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, that we may give thanks to your holy name, that we may glory in your praise. ⁴⁸Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting; and all the people shall say, Amen, Amen.

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 106 (107)

¹Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever. ²Let them say so who have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy; ³and gathered them out of the countries, from the east, and west, and north, and south. ⁴They wandered in the wilderness in a dry land; they found no way to a city of habitation. ⁵Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. ⁶Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and he delivered them out of their distresses. ⁷And he guided them into a straight path, that they might go to a city of habitation. ⁸Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonderful works to the children of men. ⁹For he satisfies the empty soul, and fills the hungry soul with good things, ¹⁰even them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and iron; ¹¹because they rebelled against the words of God, and provoked the counsel of the Most High. ¹²So their heart was brought low with troubles; they were weak, and there was no helper. ¹³Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and he saved them out of their distresses. ¹⁴And he brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds asunder. ¹⁵Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonders to the children of men. ¹⁶For he broke to pieces the brazen gates, and crushed the iron bars. ¹⁷He helped them out of the way of their iniquity; for they were brought low because of their iniquities. ¹⁸Their soul abhorred all meat; and they drew near to the gates of death. ¹⁹Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and he saved them out of their distresses. ²⁰He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them out of their destructions. ²¹Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonderful works to the children of men. ²²And let them offer to him the sacrifice of praise, and proclaim this works with exultation. ²³They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in many waters; ²⁴these men have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. ²⁵He speaks, and the stormy wind arises, and its waves are lifted up. ²⁶They go up to the heavens, and go down to the depths; their soul melts because of troubles. ²⁷They are troubled, they stagger as a drunkard, and all their wisdom is swallowed up. ²⁸Then they cry to the Lord in their affliction, and he brings them out of their distresses. ²⁹And he commands the storm, and it is calmed into a gentle breeze, and its waves are still. ³⁰And they are glad, because they are quiet; and he guides them to their desire haven. ³¹Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonderful works to the children of men. ³²Let them exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders. ³³He turns rivers into a desert, and streams of water into a dry land; ³⁴a fruitful land into saltness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it. ³⁵He turns a wilderness into pools of water, and a dry land into streams of water. ³⁶And there he causes the hungry to dwell, and they establish for themselves cities of habitation. ³⁷And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, and they yield fruit of increase. ³⁸And he blesses them, and they multiply exceedingly, and he diminishes not the number of their cattle. ³⁹Again they become few, and are brought low, by the pressure of evils and pain. ⁴⁰Contempt is poured upon their princes, and he causes them to wander in a desert and trackless land. ⁴¹But he helps the poor out of poverty, and makes him families as a flock. ⁴²The upright shall see and rejoice; and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. ⁴³Who is wise, and will observe these things, and understand the mercies of the Lord?

Stasis III

Psalm 107 (108)

¹O God, my heart is ready, my heart is ready; I will sing and sing psalms with my glory. ²Awake, lute and harp; I will awake early. ³I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the people; I will sing praise to you among the Gentiles. ⁴For your mercy is great above the heavens, and your truth reaches to the clouds. ⁵Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens; and your glory above all the earth. ⁶That your beloved ones may be delivered, save with your right hand, and hear me. God has spoken in his sanctuary; ⁷I will be exalted, and will divide Sicima, and will measure out the valley of tents. ⁸Galaad is mine; and Manasses is mine; and Ephraim is the help of my head; Judas is my king; ⁹Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I cast my sandal; the Philistines are made subject to me. ¹⁰Who will bring me into the fortified city? or who will guide me to Idumea? ¹¹Will not you, O God, who have rejected us? and will not you, O God, go forth with our hosts? ¹²Give us help from tribulation: for vain is the help of man. ¹³Through God we shall do valiantly; and he will bring to nothing our enemies.

Psalm 108 (109)

¹For the end, a Psalm of David. O God, pass not over my praise in silence; ²for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the crafty man have been opened against me: they have spoken against me with a crafty tongue. ³And they have compassed me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. ⁴Instead of loving me, they falsely accused me: but I continued to pray. ⁵And they rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. ⁶Set you a sinner against him; and let the devil stand at his right hand. ⁷When he is judged, let him go forth condemned: and let his prayer become sin. ⁸Let his days be few: and let another take his office of overseer. ⁹Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰Let his children wander without a dwelling-place, and beg: let them be cast out of their habitations. ¹¹Let his creditor exact all that belongs to him: and let strangers spoil his labors. ¹²Let him have no helper; neither let there be any one to have compassion on his fatherless children. ¹³Let his children be given up to utter destruction: in one generation let his name be blotted out. ¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. ¹⁵Let them be before the Lord continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth. ¹⁶Because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the needy and poor man, and that to kill him that was pricked in the heart. ¹⁷He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; and he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him. ¹⁸Yes, he put on cursing as a garment, and it is come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones. ¹⁹Let it be to him as a garment which he puts on, and as a girdle with which he girds himself continually. ²⁰This is the dealing of the Lord with those who falsely accuse me, and of them that speak evil against my soul. ²¹But you, O Lord, Lord, deal mercifully with me, for your name's sake: for your mercy is good. ²²Deliver me, for I am poor and needy; and my heart is troubled within me. ²³I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts. ²⁴My knees are weakened through fasting, and my flesh is changed by reason of the lack of oil. ²⁵I became also a reproach to them: when they saw me they shook their heads. ²⁶Help me, O Lord my God; and save me according to your mercy. ²⁷And let them know that this is your hand; and that you, Lord, have wrought it. ²⁸Let them curse, but you shall bless: let them that rise up against me be ashamed, but let your servant rejoice. ²⁹Let those that falsely accuse me be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle. ³⁰I will give thanks to the Lord abundantly with my mouth; and in the midst of many I will praise him. ³¹For he stood on the right hand of the poor, to save me from them that persecute my soul.

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