Irmos: Traversing the deep on foot, as though it were dry land, and seeing the tyrant Pharaoh drowned, Israel cried aloud: Let us chant unto God a hymn of victory!
Katavasia: “I shall open my mouth....”
Theotokion: O pure one, who received the Creator, as He Himself did desire, incarnate of thy seedless womb past all understanding, thou hast truly been shown to be the Mistress of creation.
Come, ye faithful, and with spiritual songs let us glorify the Forerunner, the voice of the Word, weaving hymns with a right laudable tongue and an almighty spirit, though our lips are impure.
With peaceful tranquility is the Church of Christ calmed and with countless multitudes is it tended prosperously, giving utterance to its annual hymnody unto thee, O Forerunner.
Assembling, O ye faithful, let us all honor with hymns, as is meet, the God-bearing head of the Forerunner, which hath been given unto us by God as an inviolable treasure.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.