Ode 5. Irmos.

E I have been filled with many and grievous offences, longsuffering, compassionate Master. Have compassion on me, who am condemned, and do not cast me away from your presence. [36]

Give us your peace, O Son of God, for we know no other God but you; we name you by name, [35] for you are God of the living and the dead.

T You justified the Tax-collector, O Christ, when he sighed and groaned; therefore I too, imitating him, beat my breast and cry to you, ‘Have mercy on me, O only compassionate and pitying’. [37]

You gave birth, All-immaculate, to one of the honoured Trinity with two wills but one hypostasis. Fervently implore him that we may all be saved.

Of the Martyrs

O Your Saints, Lord, appeared like unerring [38] beacons, dispelling the deep night of error and making the whole inhabited world bright with the torchlight [39] of their wonders.

Y Like priceless stones, Master, the Martyrs, yearning for you, the Rock of life, crushed [40] through torments, destroyed the whole dispensation of error.

Of the Forerunner. The same Irmos.

T Like Elias of old you dwelt in the desert, All-blest Forerunner of Christ; and so with divine care make better my heart turned by offences into a desert waste.

W You have become an immoveable pillar and greatest foundation of the faithful, Forerunner of Christ, make my thought, shaken by the wiles of the deceiver, immoveable.

N The dead were brought the good news [41] that the Light from Light had shone on earth by your light, blest Saint, and we, who were in darkness, were enlightened. Therefore on me who have been terribly blackened.

B David proclaims you Virgin Queen [42] , Immaculate Pure Lady. And so I pray you, make me an heir of the heavenly Kingdom, that I may call you blessed [43] .