Ode 7. Irmos.

Of the Mother of God. Same Irmos.

The fire in Babylon once stood in awe of God’s descent. And so the Youths in the furnace, dancing with joyful steps, as in a meadow, sang, ‘Blessed is the God of our Fathers!’

Your glorious self-emptying, the divine wealth of your poverty, O Christ, amazed the Angels when they saw you nailed to a Cross, to save those who with faith cry out, ‘Blessed is the God of our Fathers!’

At your divine descent the regions beneath the earth were filled with light, and the darkness, which before pursued, was driven out. Therefore the prisoners from every age arose, crying aloud, ‘Blessed is the God of our Fathers!’

Speaking of God with orthodox belief, we proclaim you Lord of all, Father of one only-begotten Son, and we know one right Spirit who proceeds from you, consubstantial and co-eternal.

Another, of Cross and Resurrection.

You have wrought salvation in the midst of the inhabited world, O God, as the Prophet said, for lifted up on a tree, you called back all those who cry to you with faith, ‘God of our Fathers, blessed are you!’

Rising from the tomb as from sleep, compassionate Lord, you raised the world with you, while creation was persuaded through the Apostles when they preached your Rising. ‘God of our Fathers, blessed are you!’

Equal in action with his Begetter, equal in power and co-eternal, the Word is fashioned in the womb of the Virgin by the good pleasure of the Father and the Spirit. ‘God of our Fathers, blessed are you!’

You appeared incarnate from a virgin womb for our salvation, and therefore knowing your Mother to be the one who gave birth to God, with thanksgiving we cry, ‘God of our Fathers, blessed are you!’

You are the all-blessed rod from Jesse’s root, O Virgin, and you blossomed with a saving fruit for those who with faith cry to your Son, ‘God of our Fathers, blessed are you!’

Empersonned Wisdom of the Most High, through the Mother of God fill with wisdom and divine power all those who sing to you in faith, ‘God of our Fathers, blessed are you!’