Ode 8. Irmos.

‘Rejoice, Jerusalem, and keep festival all who love Sion. For the Lord of Powers who reigns over the ages has come. Let the whole earth stand in reverence before his face, and let it cry aloud, ‘All you his works, praise the Lord’.’

Mounted on a young colt, Christ your King is here, O Sion. For to abolish the irrational error of idols and restrain the untamed wilfulness of all nations, he is at hand that they may sing, ‘O Lord, highly exalted and God of our Fathers, blessed are you’.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Sion, Christ your God has reigned to the ages, for so it is written, on a colt our just Redeemer has come, meek and bringing salvation, to destroy the prancing arrogance of foes who do not sing, ‘O Lord, highly exalted and God of our Fathers, blessed are you’.

The lawless Sanhedrin of disobedient men is scattered from the sacred precincts, for it had made God’s house of prayer into a den of thieves, having banished the Redeemer from their hearts. To him we cry, ‘O Lord, highly exalted and God of our Fathers, blessed are you’.

Rejoice, Jerusalem.