Ode 9. Irmos.

Let all born of earth, bearing torches, in spirit leap for joy; let the nature of the immaterial Minds keep festival as it honours the sacred festival of the Mother of God, and let it cry, ‘Hail, all-blessed Mother of God, pure and Ever-Virgin!’

That we believers, who through you, O Maiden, have become partakers of everlasting joy, may cry to you, ‘Hail!’, deliver us from temptation, [43] from capture by the enemy, and from every other ill that comes on sinful mortals because of the multitude of their transgressions.

You have been revealed as our enlightenment and confirmation, and so we cry to you, ‘Hail, never‑setting star that brings into the world the mighty Sun! Hail, pure Virgin who opened Eden that was shut! [44] Hail, Pillar of fire, [45] leading humanity to the life on high!’

Let us stand with reverence in the house of our God, and let us cry aloud, ‘Hail, Sovereign Lady of the world! Hail, Mary, Lady over all! Hail, you who alone are blameless and fair among women! Hail, vessel that received the inexhaustible Myrrh, emptied out upon you!

Hail, Ever‑Virgin, dove that bore the Merciful! Hail, glory of all the Saints, crown of the Champions! Hail, divine adornment of all the Just and salvation of us the faithful.

Spare your inheritance, O God, disregarding all our sins. For this you have interceding with you her who on earth conceived you without seed, when in your great mercy, O Christ, you willed to be shaped in a form that was not your own.

[1] Psalm 77:2

[2] Psalm 44:1

[3] Isaias 29:11

[4] cf. Gen. 3:16

[5] cf. Dan. 7:9

[6] cf. Song of Songs 2:1-2

[7] cf. John 12:3

[8] Exodus 25:23-30

[9] cf. John 7:38

[10] cf. Luke 15:23

[11] cf. John 1:29

[12] Exodus 25:17-22, Romans 3:25, Hebrews 9:5

[13] Ezekiel 44:1-3

[14] Psalm 106:16

[15] cf. Isaias 6:1

[16] Isaias 19:1

[17] Psalm 67:17

[18] Exodus 25:31-40

[19] Hebrews 9:4

[20] Exodus 25:17-22, Romans 3:25, Hebrews 9:5

[21] Gen. 28:10-17

[22] John14:6

[23] cf. Gen. 6-9

[24] cf. Ezekiel 3:12

[25] cf. 3 Kingd. 2:11, Ezekiel 1

[26] Gen. 2:9, 3:22-24, Apocalypse 2:7, 22:2.22

[27] Psalm 47:3

[28] Psalm 86:3

[29] Daniel 2:34

[30] cf. Judges 5:4, 6:36-40, Daniel 3:50

[31] Exodus 3:1-6

[32] Exodus 13:21 etc., Sirach 24:4

[33] Daniel 3

[34] Numbers 13:23-24

[35] Numbers 17:1-11, Hebrews 9:4

[36] cf. Isaias 8:1, Phil. 3:5, Apoc. 3:5, 13:8, 20:12, 21:27

[37] Daniel 3

[38] Exodus 3:1-6

[39] Gen. 3:7

[40] Luke 1:79, Psalm 35:10

[41] cf. John 5:21

[42] cf. Luke 7:22

[43] cf. Matthew 6:13

[44] Gen. 3:24

[45] Exodus 13:21-22