Ode 7. The Irmos.

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

‘I go to bring revelation to Adam, who sojourns in Hell, to declare to Eve the good tidings’ 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 God will come to Hell and will grant forgiveness to all the prisoners, sight to the blind and so that the dumb may cry, ‘Blessed are you the God of our Fathers’.

‘And a sword will pass through your heart, O Undefiled,’ 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’.