Stablish my fainting heart, O Lord, on thy commandments’ rock; for thou
alone art holy and the Lord.
4. The prophet heard of thine approach, O Lord, and fear’d; for thou
didst purpose of the Virgin to be born, and to appear ’mongst men; and
he exclaim’d, I heard the report of thee, and feared: glory to thy power,
O Lord.
5. Rising from the night betimes, O lover of mankind, I pray, Enlighten
me, and lead me in thine ordinances, and teach me, Saviour, to perform
thy will.
6. I cried with my whole heart to the merciful God, and he heard me from
the lowest hades, and brought back my life from corruption.
7. We have sinned, we have transgressed, we have been unrighteous before
thee, we have neither loved nor wrought that which thou hast commanded
us; still, cast us not away at the last, O God of our fathers.
8. Him that heaven’s hosts glorify, and at whose presence quake the
cherubim and seraphim, let every spirit and creature sing, bless, and set
up for evermore.
9. From conception seedless unspeakable’s the birth, of Mother
husbandless corruptless is the fruit; for God’s nativity hath nature
form’d anew. Then we, all generations, right-believingly thee magnify as
Mother who was divinely wed.
XVII. Thou who man-lovingly in depth of wisdom orderest all, and unto
all dost grant that which of service is, O Maker sole; rest thou thy
servants’ souls, O Lord, for they have plac’d their trust in thee,
Our Maker, and our Author, and our God.
We have thee as a fortress and a haven, and am accepted mediatress with
God, whom thou didst bear, God-bearing one unwed, salvation thou of them
that faithful be.[6]
XVIII. God is the Lord, and hath manifested himself unto us: blessed is
he that cometh in the name of the Lord.[7]
XIX. Hear us, O God our Saviour, thou hope of all the ends of the earth,
and of them that are far away upon the sea; and be merciful, be merciful,
O Master, concerning our sins, and have mercy upon us. For a merciful and
man-loving God thou art, and to thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.