Ode 1. Tone 4. Irmos.
Anastasis liturgical translations — translated by Ephrem Lash
‘I shall open my mouth and it will be filled with the Spirit, and I will utter a word for the Queen and Mother, and I shall be seen keeping glad festival, and rejoicing I will sing her wonders.’
As you created the deeps by a command and hung the earth upon the waters, O Lord who love mankind, made lowly you come to be baptised in a river’s streams, as you wash me from the stain of passions.
By your wish, O Christ, you beggared the one who willingly beggared me by gifts of evils, as you made me rich. And you, the sinless, approach the waters of Jordan, asking for baptism.
Creating anew a world grown old by faults, O Lover of mankind, you are coming to make a strange renewal for mankind through water and the Spirit; therefore we glorify your Appearing.
David, singing in advance by the divine Spirit, cried out: What is it, sea, that you have now fled? What is it, Jordan, that you have turned back, as you look on Christ standing naked in you?
Translated by Ephrem Lash. Edition lash.en.anastasis.