Were not the Lord with us, we none could have withstood the foe’s attack; for they that overcome are thence lift up.
As a small bird be not my soul caught in their teeth, O Word: woe unto me! how from the foe shall I be freed, who am a lover of sin.
Glory.
Through the Holy Ghost divinity comes to all, goodwill and understanding, peace and blessing; for he is like-effective with the Father and the Word.
Both now, the same.
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.[39]
Alleluia, thrice, repeating alleluia to every verse of the rest of the psalm. Glory, alleluia. Both now, alleluia.
Troparion, tone ii.
In faith, and hope, and love, and meekness, and in chastity, and in the priestly dignity thou piously hast liv’d, thou aye remember’d one. Therefore the eternal God, whom thou hast served, in a bright and pleasant place, where rest the just, thy soul hath plac’d; and, at the judgment-seat of Christ, thou shalt forgiveness gain, and mercy great.