Kathisma II

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 9 (9–10)

¹I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all your wonderful works. ²I will be glad and exult in you: I will sing to your name, O you Most High. ³When my enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at your presence. ⁴For you have maintained my cause and my right; you sat on the throne, that judge righteousness. ⁵You have rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; you have blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever. ⁶The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and you have destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise, ⁷but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment. ⁸And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness. ⁹The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction. ¹⁰And let them that know your name hope in you: for you, O Lord, have not failed them that diligently seek you. ¹¹Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings among the nations. ¹²For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor. ¹³Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction which I suffer of my enemies, you that lift me up from the gates of death: ¹⁴that I may declare all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in your salvation. ¹⁵The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken. ¹⁶The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause. ¹⁷Let sinners be driven away into Hades, even all the nations that forget God. ¹⁸For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever. ¹⁹Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before you. ²⁰Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause. (Psalm 9a) ²¹Why stand you afar off, O Lord? why do you overlook us in times of need, in affliction? ²²While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued: the wicked are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine. ²³Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself. ²⁴The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him. ²⁵His ways are profane at all times; your judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies. ²⁶For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, continuing without evil from generation to generation. ²⁷Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain. ²⁸He lies in wait with rich men in secret places, in order to kill the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor. ²⁹He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him after him: he will bring him down in his snare. ³⁰He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor. ³¹For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look. ³²Arise, O Lord God; let your hand be lifted up: forget not the poor. ³³Therefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require it. ³⁴You see it; for you do observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into your hands: the poor has been left to you; you were a helper to the orphan. ³⁵Break you the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found. ³⁶The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: you Gentiles shall perish out his land. ³⁷The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: your ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart; ³⁸to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.

Psalm 10 (11)

¹In the Lord I have put my trust: how will you say to my soul, ²Flee to the mountains as a sparrow? ³For behold the sinners have bent their bow, they have prepared their arrows for the quiver, to shoot privily at the upright in heart. ⁴For they have pulled down what you did frame, but what has the righteous done? ⁵The Lord is in his holy temple, as for the Lord, his throne is in heaven: his eyes look upon the poor, his eyelids try the sons of men. ⁶The Lord tries the righteous and the ungodly: and he that loves unrighteousness hates his own soul. ⁷He shall rain upon sinners snares, fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast shall be the portion of their cup. ⁸For the Lord is righteous, and loves righteousness; his face beholds uprightness.

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 11 (12)

¹Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men. ²Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbor: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart. ³Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words: ⁴who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us? ⁵Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the Lord, I will set them in safety; I will speak to them thereof openly. ⁶The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; as silver tried in the fire, proved in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. ⁷You, O Lord, shall keep us, and shall preserve us, from this generation, and for ever. ⁸The ungodly walk around: according to your greatness you have greatly exalted the sons of men.

Psalm 12 (13)

¹How long, O Lord, will you forget me? for ever? how long will you turn away your face from me? ²How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me? ³Look on me, listen to me, O Lord my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep in death; ⁴lest at any time my enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved. ⁵But I have hoped in your mercy; my heart shall exult in your salvation. ⁶I will sing to the Lord who has dealt bountifully with me, and I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord most high.

Psalm 13 (14)

¹The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in their devices; there is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one. ²The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after god. ³They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes. ⁴Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon the Lord. ⁵There were they alarmed with fear, where there was no fear; for God is in the righteous generation. ⁶You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his hope. ⁷Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Sion? when the Lord brings back the captivity of his people, let Jacob exult, and Israel be glad.

Stasis III

Psalm 14 (15)

¹O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tabernacle? and who shall dwell in your holy mountain? ²He that walks blameless, and works righteousness, who speaks truth in his heart. ³Who has not spoken craftily with his tongue, neither has done evil to his neighbor, nor taken up a reproach against them that lived nearest to him. ⁴In his sight an evil-worker is set at nothing, but he honors them that fear the Lord. He swears to his neighbor, and disappoints him not. ⁵He has not lent his money on usury, and has not received bribes against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

Psalm 15 (16)

¹Keep me, O Lord; for I have hoped in you. ²I said to the Lord, You are my Lord; for you have no need of my goodness. ³On behalf of the saints that are in his land, he has magnified all his pleasure in them. ⁴Their weaknesses have been multiplied; afterward they hasted. I will by no means assemble their bloody meetings, neither will I make mention of their names with my lips. ⁵The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you are he that restores my inheritance to me. ⁶The lines have fallen to me in the best places, yes, I have a most excellent heritage. ⁷I will bless the Lord who has instructed me; my reins too have chastened me even till night. ⁸I foresaw the Lord always before my face; for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. ⁹Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: ¹⁰because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption. ¹¹You have made known to me the ways of life; you will fill me with joy with your countenance: at your right hand there are delights for ever.

Psalm 16 (17)

¹Listen, O Lord of my righteousness, attend to my petition; give ear to my prayer not uttered with deceitful lips. ²Let my judgment come forth from your presence; let my eyes behold righteousness. ³You have tested my heart; you have visited me by night; you have tried me as with fire, and unrighteousness has not been found in me: I am purposed that my mouth shall not speak amiss. ⁴As for the works of men, by the words of your lips I have guarded myself from hard ways. ⁵Direct my steps in your paths, that my steps slip not. ⁶I have cried, for you heard me, O God: incline your ear to me, and listen to my words. ⁷Show the marvels of your mercies, you that save them that hope in you. ⁸Keep me as the apple of the eye from those that resist your right hand: you shall screen me by the covering of your wings, ⁹from the face of the ungodly that have afflicted me: my enemies have compassed about my soul. ¹⁰They have enclosed themselves with their own fat: their mouth has spoken pride. ¹¹They have now cast me out and compassed me round about: they have set their eyes so as to bow them down to the ground. ¹²They laid wait for me as a lion ready for prey, and like a lion's whelp dwelling in secret places. ¹³Arise, O Lord, prevent them, and cast them down: deliver my soul from the ungodly: draw your sword, ¹⁴because of the enemies of your hand: O Lord, destroy them from the earth; scatter them in their life, though their belly has been filled with your hidden treasures: they have been satisfied with uncleanness, and have left the remnant of their possessions to their babes. ¹⁵But I shall appear in righteousness before your face: I shall be satisfied when your glory appears.

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