Irmos: Once, in Babylon, the fire stood in awe of the condescension of God; wherefore, the youths, dancing with joyous step in the furnace, as in a meadow, chanted: Blessed art Thou, O God of our fathers!
The flow of thy blood hath opened the portals of heaven and hath brought thee to stand before the Judge of the contest, Who extendeth to thee a crown; and thou criest: Blessed is the God of our fathers!
Theotokion: Having conceived the Timeless One within time without knowing wedlock, O pure one, thou gavest birth unto the Word, Who before was incorporeal, but received flesh of thee, O Virgin. To Him do we chant, crying aloud together: Blessed is the God of our fathers!
Seizing the divinely manifest one like wild beasts, the deicides slew him with hands defiled by murder, whilst he prayed earnestly for those who were slaying him, and chanted: Blessed is the God of our fathers!
With the law didst thou upbraid the iniquitous, being a lawful emulator of the Savior, and didst show them to be opposed to God; and, stoned to death by them, thou didst chant: Blessed is the God of our fathers!
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.