After the first chanting of the Psalter, this sessional hymn, in Tone IV… Spec. Mel.: “Joseph marvelled…”—
Shown on earth to be more spacious than the heavens, in that thou gavest birth in the flesh to the Creator of all, thou hast now departed from the earth to the very heavens. The souls of the righteous, beholding thee, and the choirs of the angels, looking on, ever offer thee praise as is meet, as unto a Queen. Wherefore, cease thou never to pray for those who hymn thee.
At “God is the Lord…”, the troparion of the feast, twice ; Glory…, the troparion of the martyrs; Now & ever…, the troparion of the feast.
After the second chanting of the Psalter, this sessional hymn, in the same tone: Spec. Mel.: “Go thou quickly before…”—
Glory…, Now & ever…: The foregoing is repeated.
We hymn thy dormition, O all-pure one, to which Christ our God, Who was incarnate of thee, came to receive thy spirit. Wherefore, even though thou hast departed, O Theotokos, in thy supplications cease not to visit those who hymn thee.
Glory…, Now & ever…: The foregoing is repeated.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.