Kathisma XVIII

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 119 (120)

¹In my affliction I cried to the Lord, and he listened to me. ²Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue. ³What should be given to you, and what should be added to you, for your crafty tongue? ⁴Sharpened weapons of the mighty, with coals of the desert. ⁵Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar. ⁶My soul has long been a sojourner; ⁷I was peaceful among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.

Psalm 120 (121)

¹I lifted up my eyes to the mountains, whence my help shall come. ²My help shall come from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth. ³Let not your foot be moved; and let not your keeper slumber. ⁴Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep. ⁵The Lord shall keep you: the Lord is your shelter upon your right hand. ⁶The sun shall not burn you by day, neither the moon by night. ⁷May the Lord preserve you from all evil: the Lord shall keep your soul. ⁸The Lord shall keep your coming in, and your going out, from henceforth and even for ever.

Psalm 121 (122)

¹I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. ²Our feet stood in your courts, O Jerusalem. ³Jerusalem is built as a city whose fellowship is complete. ⁴For there the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. ⁵For there are set thrones for judgment, even thrones for the house of David. ⁶Pray now for the peace of Jerusalem: and let there be prosperity to them that love you. ⁷Let peace, I pray, be within your host, and prosperity in your palaces. ⁸For the sake of my brethren and my neighbors, I have indeed spoken peace concerning you. ⁹Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have diligently sought your good.

Psalm 122 (123)

¹To you who dwell in heaven have I lifted up my eyes. ²Behold, as the eyes of servants are directed to the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maidservant to the hands of her mistress; so our eyes are directed to the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us. ³Have pity upon us, O Lord, have pity upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ⁴Yes, our soul has been exceedingly filled with it: let the reproach be to them that are at ease, and contempt to the proud.

Psalm 123 (124)

¹If it had not been that the Lord was among us, let Israel now say; ²if it had not been that the Lord was among us, when men rose up against us; ³verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us: ⁴verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent. ⁵Yes, our soul would have gone under the overwhelming water. ⁶Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth. ⁷Our soul has been delivered as a sparrow from the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered. ⁸Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

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 124 (125)

¹They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved. ²The mountains are round about her, and so the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth and even for ever. ³For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to be upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous should stretch forth their hands to iniquity. ⁴Do good, O Lord, to them that are good, and to them that are upright in heart. ⁵But them that turn aside to crooked ways the Lord will lead away with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

Psalm 125 (126)

¹When the Lord turned the captivity of Sion, we became as comforted ones. ²Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exultation: then would they say among the Gentiles, ³The Lord has done great things among them. The Lord has done great things for us, we became joyful. ⁴Turn, O Lord, our captivity, as the streams in the south. ⁵They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. ⁶They went on and wept as they cast their seeds; but they shall surely come with exultation, bringing their sheaves with them.

Psalm 126 (127)

¹Except the Lord build the house, they that build labor in vain: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watches in vain. ²It is vain for you to rise early: you rise up after resting, you that eat the bread of grief; while he gives sleep to his beloved. ³Behold, the inheritance of the Lord, children, the reward of the fruit of the womb. ⁴As arrows in the hand of a mighty man; so are the children of those who were outcasts. ⁵Blessed is the man who shall satisfy his desire with them: they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak to their enemies in the gates.

Psalm 127 (128)

¹Blessed are all they that fear the Lord; who walk in his ways. ²You shall eat the labors of your hands: blessed are you, and it shall be well with you. ³Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house: your children as young olive-plants round about your table. ⁴Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord. ⁵May the Lord bless you out of Sion; and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. ⁶And may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

Psalm 128 (129)

¹A Song of Degrees. Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say: ²Many a time have they warred against me from my youth: and yet they prevailed not against me. ³The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity. ⁴The righteous Lord has cut asunder the necks of sinners. ⁵Let all that hate Sion be put to shame and turned back. ⁶Let them be as the grass of the housetops, which withers before it is plucked up. ⁷Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom. ⁸Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.

Stasis III

Psalm 129 (130)

¹Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Lord. ²O Lord, listen to my voice; let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. ³If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? ⁴For with you is forgiveness: for your name's sake ⁵have I waited for you, O Lord, my soul has waited for your word. ⁶My soul has hoped in the Lord; from the morning watch till night. ⁷Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. ⁸And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

Psalm 130 (131)

¹O Lord, my heart is not exalted, neither have my eyes been haughtily raised: neither have I exercised myself in great matters, nor in things too wonderful for me. ²I shall have sinned if I have not been humble, but have exulted my soul: according to the relation of a weaned child to his mother, so will you recompense my soul. ³Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Psalm 131 (132)

¹Lord, remember David, and all his meekness: ²how he swore to the Lord, and vowed to the God of Jacob, saying, ³I will not go into the tabernacle of my house; I will not go up to the couch of my bed; ⁴I will not give sleep to my eyes, nor slumber to my eyelids, nor rest to my temples, ⁵until I find a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. ⁶Behold, we heard of it in Ephratha; we found it in the fields of the wood. ⁷Let us enter into his tabernacles: let us worship at the place where his feet stood. ⁸Arise, O Lord, into your rest; you, and the ark of your holiness. ⁹Your priests shall clothe themselves with righteousness; and your saints shall exult. ¹⁰For the sake of your servant David turn not away the face of your anointed. ¹¹The Lord swore in truth to David, and he will not annul it, saying, Of the fruit of your body will I set a king upon your throne. ¹²If your children will keep my covenant, and these my testimonies which I shall teach them, their children also shall sit upon your throne for ever. ¹³For the Lord has elected Sion, he has chosen her for a habitation for himself, saying, ¹⁴This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have chosen it. ¹⁵I will surely bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. ¹⁶I will clothe her priests with salvation; and her saints shall greatly exult. ¹⁷There will I cause to spring up a horn to David: I have prepared a lamp for my anointed. ¹⁸His enemies will I clothe with a shame; but upon himself shall my holiness flourish.

Psalm 132 (133)

¹See now! what is so good, or what so pleasant, as for brethren to dwell together? ²It is as ointment on the head, that ran down to the beard, even the beard of Aaron; that ran down to the fringe of his clothing. ³As the dew of Aermon, that comes down on the mountains of Sion: for there, the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for ever.

Psalm 133 (134)

¹Behold now, bless you the Lord, all the servants of the Lord, who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. ²Lift up your hands by night in the sanctuaries, and bless the Lord. ³May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, bless you out of Sion.

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