Ode 1. Tone 4. Irmos.
Anastasis liturgical translations — translated by Ephrem Lash
Through the Red Sea’s deep the Israel of old marched dry shod, and by Moses’ hands, outstretched in the form of a cross, routed the power of Amalek in the wilderness.
Christ, who by a pillar once led Israel the chosen, through the bath of baptism you planted on Sion the Church which cries, ‘Let us sing a song to our God.’
Today the visitation of your unapproachable glory has constructed a heaven: this temple which has been fixed for you on earth, in which we chant with one accord, ‘Let us sing a song to our God.’
Not by law is your Church made beautiful, O Lord, nor by the stretching out of servile hands, but, proud in the grace of the Cross, she chants to you, ‘Let us sing a new song to our God.’
By the Father’s will, without seed you conceived from the divine Spirit the Son of God, and you bore in the flesh him who came from the Father without mother and, for our sake, from you without father.
Translated by Ephrem Lash. Edition lash.en.anastasis.