Irmos: Christ is my power, my God and my Lord, the honored Church doth sing, crying out in godly manner with a pure mind, keeping festival in the Lord.
Theotokion: Eating hath shown me to be a dead plant, O all-pure one, but the Tree of Life Who revealed Himself through thee, hath raised me up and made me an heir to the food of paradise.
Clearly thou wast the seal of the Old Covenant and the prophets, O thou who art most rich, and thou didst preach unto the ends of the earth; and thou hast been revealed as the adorner of the bridal chamber of the New Covenant, O Forerunner.
O Forerunner, rejoicing, thou didst by habit endure the covering of thy precious and glorious head with coarse rags, as with a robe of royal purple.
By thy divine instructions, O John, a poor man, fleeing and wandering about, doth show thy divine head to be an abundant treasure.
O Forerunner, pray thou ever that the city of Jerusalem which honoreth thee be illumined with the radiance of the divine Spirit, and that it rejoice with the incorporeal ones in thy divine memory.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.