Kathisma IV

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 24 (25)

¹To you, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul. ²O my God, I have trusted in you: let me not be confounded, neither let my enemies laugh me to scorn. ³For none of them that wait on you shall in any wise be ashamed: let them be ashamed that transgress without cause. ⁴Show me your ways, O Lord; and teach me your paths. ⁵Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are God my Saviour: and I have waited on you all the day. ⁶Remember your compassions, O Lord, and your mercies, for they are from everlasting. ⁷Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my sins of ignorance: remember me according to your mercy, for your goodness' sake, O Lord. ⁸Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he instruct sinners in the way. ⁹The meek will he guide in judgment: the meek will he teach his ways. ¹⁰All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth to them that seek his covenant and his testimonies. ¹¹For your name's sake, O Lord, do you also be merciful to my sin; for it is great. ¹²Who is the man that fears the Lord? he shall instruct him in the way which he has chosen. ¹³His soul shall dwell in prosperity; and his seed shall inherit the earth. ¹⁴The Lord is the strength of them that fear him; and his covenant is to manifest truth to them. ¹⁵My eyes are continually to the Lord; for he shall draw my feet out of the snare. ¹⁶Look upon me, and have mercy upon me; for I am an only child and poor. ¹⁷The afflictions of my heart have been multiplied; deliver me from my distresses. ¹⁸Look upon my affliction and my trouble; and forgive all my sins. ¹⁹Look upon my enemies; for they have been multiplied; and they have hated me with unjust hatred. ²⁰Keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I have hoped in you. ²¹The harmless and upright joined themselves to me: for I waited for you, O Lord. ²²Deliver Israel, O God, out of all his afflictions.

Psalm 25 (26)

¹Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in my innocence: and hoping in the Lord I shall not be moved. ²Prove me, O Lord, and try me; purify as with fire my reins and my heart. ³For your mercy is before my eyes: and I am well pleased with your truth. ⁴I have not sat with the council of vanity, and will in nowise enter in with transgressors. ⁵I have hated the assembly of wicked doers; and will not sit with ungodly men. ⁶I will wash my hands in innocency, and compass your altar, O Lord: ⁷to hear the voice of praise, and to declare all your wonderful works. ⁸O Lord, I have loved the beauty of your house, and the place of the tabernacle of your glory. ⁹Destroy not my soul together with the ungodly, nor my life with bloody men: ¹⁰in whose hands are iniquities, and their right hand is filled with bribes. ¹¹But I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy upon me. ¹²My foot stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless you, O Lord.

Psalm 26 (27)

¹The Lord is my light and my Saviour; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? ²When evil-doers drew near against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and my enemies, they fainted and fell. ³Though an army should set itself in array against me, my heart shall not be afraid: though war should rise up against me, in this am I confident. ⁴One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I earnestly seek: that I should dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, that I should behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and survey his temple. ⁵For in the day of my afflictions he hid me in his tabernacle: he sheltered me in the secret of his tabernacle; he set me up on a rock. ⁶And now, behold, he has lifted up my head over my enemies: I went round and offered in his tabernacle the sacrifice of joy; I will sing even sing psalms to the Lord. ⁷Hear, O Lord, my voice which I have uttered aloud: pity me, and listen to me. ⁸My heart said to you, I have diligently sought your face: your face, O Lord, I will seek. ⁹Turn not your face away from me, turn not you away from your servant in anger: be you my helper, forsake me not; and, O God my Saviour, overlook me not. ¹⁰For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has taken me to himself. ¹¹Teach me, O Lord, in your way, and guide me in a right path, because of my enemies. ¹²Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and injustice has lied within herself. ¹³I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. ¹⁴Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened: yes wait on the Lord.

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 27 (28)

¹To you, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me: lest you be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit. ²Listen to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy temple. ³Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but evils are in their hearts. ⁴Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their devices: give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompense to them. ⁵Because they have not attended to the works of the Lord, even to the works of his hands, you shall pull them down, and shall not build them up. ⁶Blessed be the Lord, for he has listened to the voice of my petition. ⁷The Lord is my helper and my defender; my heart has hoped in him, and I am helped: my flesh has revived, and willingly will I give praise to him. ⁸The Lord is the strength of his people, and the saving defender of his anointed. ⁹Save your people, and bless your inheritance: and take care of them, and lift them up for ever.

Psalm 28 (29)

¹Bring to the Lord, you sons of God, bring to the Lord young rams; bring to the Lord glory and honor. ²Bring to the Lord glory, due to his name; worship the lord in his holy court. ³The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory has thundered: the Lord is upon many waters. ⁴The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. ⁵There is the voice of the Lord who breaks the cedars; the Lord will break the cedars of Libanus. ⁶And he will beat them small, even Libanus itself, like a calf; and the beloved one is as a young unicorn. ⁷There is a voice of the Lord who divides a flame of fire. ⁸A voice of the Lord who shakes the wilderness; the Lord will shake the wilderness of Cades. ⁹The voice of the Lord strengthens the hinds, and will uncover the thickets: and in his temple every one speaks of his glory. ¹⁰The Lord will dwell on the waterflood: and the Lord will sit a king for ever. ¹¹The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.

Psalm 29 (30)

¹I will exalt you, O Lord; for you have lifted me up, and not caused my enemies to rejoice over me. ²O Lord my God, I cried to you, and you did heal me. ³O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Hades, you have delivered me from among them that go down to the pit. ⁴Sing to the Lord, you his saints, and give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness. ⁵For anger is in his wrath, but life in his favor: weeping shall wait for the evening, but joy shall be in the morning. ⁶And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ⁷O Lord, in your good pleasure you did add strength to my beauty: but you did turn away your face, and I was troubled. ⁸To you, O Lord, will I cry; and to my God will I make supplication. ⁹What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to you? or shall it declare your truth? ¹⁰The Lord heard, and had compassion upon me; the Lord is become my helper. ¹¹You have turned my mourning into joy for me: you have torn off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; ¹²that my glory may sing praise to you, and I may not be pierced with sorrow. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you for ever.

Stasis III

Psalm 30 (31)

¹O Lord, I have hoped in you; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness and rescue me. ²Incline your ear to me; make haste to rescue me: be you to me for a protecting God, and for a house of refuge to save me. ³For you are my strength and my refuge; and you shall guide me for your name's sake, and maintain me. ⁴You shall bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for you, O Lord, are my defender. ⁵Into your hands I will commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. ⁶You have hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord. ⁷I will exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon my affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses. ⁸And you have not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place. ⁹Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly. ¹⁰For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled. ¹¹I became a reproach among all my enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me. ¹²I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel. ¹³For I heard the slander of many that lived round about: when they were gathered together against me, they took counsel to take my life. ¹⁴But I hoped in you, O Lord: I said, You are my God. ¹⁵My lots are in your hands: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, ¹⁶and from them that persecute me. Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me in your mercy. ¹⁷O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon you: let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades. ¹⁸Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn. ¹⁹How abundant is the multitude of your goodness, O Lord, which you have laid up for them that fear you! you have wrought it out for them that hope on you, in the presence of the sons of men. ²⁰You will hide them in the secret of your presence from the vexation of man: you will screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues. ²¹Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city. ²²But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of your eyes: therefore you did listen, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to you. ²³Love the Lord, all you his saints: for the Lord seeks for truth, and renders a reward to them that deal very proudly. ²⁴Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all you that hope in the Lord.

Psalm 31 (32)

¹Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and who sins are covered. ²Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, and whose mouth there is no guile. ³Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day. ⁴For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in me. Pause. ⁵I acknowledged my sin, and hid not my iniquity: I said, I will confess my iniquity to the Lord against myself; and you forgave the ungodliness of my heart. Pause. ⁶Therefore shall every holy one pray to you in a fit time: only in the deluge of many waters they shall not come near to him. ⁷You are my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause. ⁸I will instruct you and guide you in this way wherein you shall go: I will fix my eyes upon you. ⁹Be you not as horse and mule, which have no understanding; but you must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, lest they should come near to you. ¹⁰Many are the scourges of the sinner: but him that hopes in the Lord mercy shall compass about. ¹¹Be glad in the Lord, and exult, you righteous: and glory, all you that are upright in heart.

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