Irmos: Come ye, and with pure souls and undefiled lips let us magnify the undefiled and all-pure Mother of Emmanuel, offering supplication unto Him Who was born of her, saying: Take pity on our souls, O Christ God, and save us!
Let no one be foolish and ungrateful to Christ, despising His long-suffering patience and goodness, lest He be offended; but with fear and joy let us become His servants, chanting: Take pity on our souls, O Christ God, and save us!
Irmos: We magnify thee as the Theotokos…
The Forerunner saith to the disobedient people: “Who hath shown you how to escape the coming wrath, ye spawn of vipers? Wherefore, show forth fruits worthy of repentance, crying out: Take pity on our souls, O Christ God, and save us!”
Then, the irmos: We magnify thee as the Theotokos, who art more honorable than the cherubim and more glorious beyond compare than the seraphim, and without corruption gavest birth to God the Word.
O the arrogance of blind ignorance! For people from foreign lands have done homage to Christ as Deliverer, honoring Him with gifts; but His own people savagely sought to slay Him when He was born. Take pity on our souls, O Christ God, and save us!
Now setting aright the most pernicious fall of Adam, the new Adam hath appeared, all-gloriously granting the freedom of regeneration through baptism.
Fulfilling the law and the prophets and effecting righteousness, the Savior of all now boweth His head beneath the hand of His servant, rescuing man from slavery to the enemy.
A great light hath dawned upon the nations, a divine ray hath illumined the benighted: Christ, the Sun of righteousness, hath shone forth upon those who from of old have sat in the shadow of death.
Armies of angels surrounded the Deliverer baptized in the Jordan, and with trembling they hymned the great mystery of His ineffable condescension.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.