Ode 8. Irmos.

‘Since the word of the tyrant prevailed, the furnace was once heated seven times. In it the youths, having trampled on the king’s decree, were not consumed by flames, but cried aloud, ‘All you works of the Lord praise the Lord, and highly exalt him to all the ages’.’

A woman emptied out precious ointment on your royal, divine and awesome head, O Christ; with her polluted palms laid hold on your immaculate feet and cried aloud, ‘All you works of the Lord praise the Lord, and highly exalt him to all the ages.’

Guilty of sins, she washed with tears the feet of the Creator and wiped them with her hair; and so she did not fail to find redemption of all that she had done in life, but cried aloud, ‘All you works of the Lord praise the Lord, and highly exalt him to all the ages.’

Redemption was ministered to the grateful woman from the Saviour’s compassion and the fountain of her tears. Washed clean by which, through her confession, she was not ashamed, but cried aloud, ‘All you works of the Lord praise the Lord, and highly exalt him to all the ages.’

Since the word of the tyrant prevailed, the furnace was once heated seven times. In it the youths, having trampled on the king’s decree, were not consumed by flames, but cried aloud, ‘All you works of the Lord praise the Lord, and highly exalt him to all the ages.’

The Magnificat is not sung, but instead the 9th Ode.