Kathisma VII

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 46 (47)

¹Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with a voice of exultation. ²For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great king over all the earth. ³He has subdued the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet. ⁴He has chosen out his inheritance for us, the beauty of Jacob which he loved. Pause. ⁵God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with a sound of a trumpet. ⁶Sing praises to our God, sing praises: sing praises to our King, sing praises. ⁷For God is king of all the earth: sing praises with understanding. ⁸God reigns over the nations: God sits upon the throne of his holiness. ⁹The rulers of the people are assembled with the God of Abraam: for God's mighty ones of the earth have been greatly exalted.

Psalm 47 (48)

¹Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. ²The city of the great King is well planted on the mountains of Sion, with the joy of the whole earth, on the sides of the north. ³God is known in her palaces, when he undertakes to help her. ⁴For, behold the kings of the earth were assembled, they came together. ⁵They saw, and so they wondered: they were troubled, they were moved. ⁶Trembling took hold on them: there were the pangs as of a woman in travail. ⁷You will break the ships of Tharsis with a vehement wind. ⁸As we have heard, so have we also seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God has founded it for ever. Pause. ⁹We have thought of your mercy, O God, in the midst of your people. ¹⁰According to your name, O God, so is also your praise to the ends of the earth: your right hand is full of righteousness. ¹¹Let mount Sion rejoice, let the daughters of Judaea exult, because of your judgments, O Lord. ¹²Go round about Sion, and encompass her: tell you her towers. ¹³Mark you well her strength, and observe her palaces; that you may tell the next generation. ¹⁴For this is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide for evermore.

Psalm 48 (49)

¹Hear these words, all you nations, listen, all you that dwell upon the earth: ²both the sons of mean men, and sons of great men; the rich and poor man together. ³My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall bring forth understanding. ⁴I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my riddle on the harp. ⁵Therefore should I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall compass me. ⁶They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth— ⁷A brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? he shall not give to God a ransom for himself, ⁸or the price of the redemption of his soul, though he labor for ever, ⁹and live to the end, so that he should not see corruption. ¹⁰When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers. ¹¹And their sepulchres are their houses for ever, even their tabernacles to all generations: they have called their lands after their own names. ¹²And man being in honor, understands not: he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like to them. ¹³This their way is an offense to them: yet afterwards men will commend their sayings. Pause. ¹⁴They have laid them as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory. ¹⁵But God shall deliver my soul from the power of Hades, when he shall receive me. Pause. ¹⁶Fear not when a man is enriched, and when the glory of his house is increased. ¹⁷For he shall take nothing when he dies; neither shall his glory descend with him. ¹⁸For his soul shall be blessed in his life: he shall give thanks to you when you do well to him. ¹⁹Yet he shall go in to the generation of his fathers; he shall never see light. ²⁰Man that is in honor, understands not: he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like 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 49 (50)

¹The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. ²Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty. ³God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest. ⁴He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people. ⁵Assemble you his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices. ⁶And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause. ⁷Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God. ⁸I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually. ⁹I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he-goats out of your flocks. ¹⁰For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen. ¹¹I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine. ¹²If I should be hungry, I will not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it. ¹³Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High. ¹⁵And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. Pause. ¹⁶But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth? ¹⁷Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind you. ¹⁸If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers. ¹⁹Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit. ²⁰You did sit and speak against your brother, and did scandalize your mother's son. ²¹These things you did, and I kept silence: you thought wickedly that I should be like you, but I will reprove you, and set your offenses before you. ²²Now consider these things, you that forget God, lest he rend you, and there is no deliverer. ²³The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will show to him the salvation of God.

Psalm 50 (51)

¹Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your great mercy; and according to the multitude of your compassions blot out my transgression. ²Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. ³For I am conscious of my iniquity; and my sin is continually before me. ⁴Against you only have I sinned, and done evil before you: that you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged. ⁵For, behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother conceive me. ⁶For, behold, you love truth: you have manifested to me the secret and hidden things of your wisdom. ⁷You shall sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified: you shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow. ⁸You shall cause me to hear gladness and joy: the afflicted bones shall rejoice. ⁹Turn away your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. ¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit in my inward parts. ¹¹Cast me not away from your presence; and remove not your holy Spirit from me. ¹²Restore to me the joy of your salvation: establish me with your directing Spirit. ¹³Then will I teach transgressors your ways; and ungodly men shall turn to you. ¹⁴Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation: and my tongue shall joyfully declare your righteousness. ¹⁵O Lord, you shall open my lips; and my mouth shall declare your praise. ¹⁶For if you desired sacrifice, I would have given it: you will not take pleasure in whole burnt offerings. ¹⁷Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit: a broken and humbled heart God will not despise. ¹⁸Do good, O Lord, to Sion in your good pleasure; and let the walls of Jerusalem be built. ¹⁹Then shall you be pleased with a sacrifice of righteousness, offering, and whole burnt sacrifices: then shall they offer calves upon your altar.

Stasis III

Psalm 51 (52)

¹Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in your mischief? All the day ²your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit. ³You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause. ⁴You have loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue. ⁵Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from your dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause. ⁶And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say, ⁷Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity. ⁸But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore. ⁹I will give thanks to you for ever, for you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before the saints.

Psalm 52 (53)

¹The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that does good. ²God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God. ³They have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not even one. ⁴Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear: ⁵or God has scattered the bones of the men-pleasers; they were ashamed, for God despised them. ⁶Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Sion? When the Lord turns the captivity of his people, Jacob shall exult, and Israel shall be glad.

Psalm 53 (54)

¹Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your might. ²O God, hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth. ³For strangers have risen up against me, and mighty men have sought my life: they have not set God before them. Pause. ⁴For behold! God assists me; and the Lord is the helper of my soul. ⁵He shall return evil to my enemies; utterly destroy them in your truth. ⁶I will willingly sacrifice to you: I will give thanks to your name, O Lord; for it is good. ⁷For you have delivered me out of all affliction, and my eye has seen my desire upon my enemies.

Psalm 54 (55)

¹Listen, O God, to my prayer; and disregard not my supplication. ²Attend to me, and listen to me: I was grieved in my meditation, and troubled; ³because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner: for they brought iniquity against me, and were wrathfully angry with me. ⁴My heart was troubled within me; and the fear of death fell upon me. ⁵Fear and trembling came upon me, and darkness covered me. ⁶And I said, O that I had wings as those of a dove! then would I flee away, and be at rest. ⁷Behold! I have fled afar off, and lodged in the wilderness. Pause. ⁸I waited for him that should deliver me from distress of spirit and tempest. ⁹Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen iniquity and gain saying in the city. ¹⁰Day and night he shall go round about it upon its walls: iniquity and sorrow and unrighteousness are in the midst of it; ¹¹and usury and craft have not failed from its streets. ¹²For if an enemy had reproached me, I would have endured it; and if one who hated me had spoken vauntingly against me, I would have hid myself from him. ¹³But you, O man like minded, my guide, and my acquaintance, ¹⁴who in companionship with me sweetened our food: we walked in the house of God in concord. ¹⁵Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades, for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them. ¹⁶I cried to God, and the Lord listened to me. ¹⁷Evening, and morning, and at noon I will declare and make known my wants: and he shall hear my voice. ¹⁸He shall deliver my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: for they were with me in many cases. ¹⁹God shall hear, and bring them low, even he that has existed from eternity. Pause. For they suffer no reverse, and therefore they have not feared God. ²⁰He has reached forth his hand for retribution; they have profaned his covenant. ²¹They were scattered at the anger of his countenance, and his heart drew near them. His words were smoother than oil, yet are they darts. ²²Cast your care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain you; he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. ²³But you, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction; bloody and crafty men shall not live out half their days; but I will hope in you, O Lord.

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