Ode 7. The Irmos.

‘God the Word, who in the fire dropped dew upon the Youths as they sang of God [64] and who dwelt in an undefiled Virgin, we praise you as we devoutly sing, ‘Blessed are you the God of our Fathers’ [65] .’

‘I go to bring revelation to Adam, who sojourns in Hell, to declare to Eve the good tidings’ [66] Symeon cried out, as with the choir of Prophets he sang, ‘Blessed are you the God of our Fathers’.

To deliver a race formed of dust [67] God will come to Hell and will grant forgiveness to all the prisoners, sight to the blind and so that the dumb may cry, [68] ‘Blessed are you the God of our Fathers’.

‘And a sword will pass through your heart, O Undefiled,’ [69] Symeon foretold to the Mother of God, ‘When you see you Son on the Cross.’ To him we cry, ‘Blessed are you the God of our Fathers’.