Irmos: Stretching forth his hands, Daniel shut the lions’ mouths in the pit; and the young lovers of piety, girded about with virtue, quenched the power of the fire, crying out: Bless the Lord, all ye works of the Lord!
Prepare thyself, O thou who knowest not wedlock, thou light cloud of the Light! For the never-setting Sun shineth forth upon thee from on high, which, hidden within thee for a time, shall be revealed to the world and shall dispel the darkness of evil.
The first minister among the angels uttered to thee a cry of joy, O pure one, announcing to thee the Angel of great Counsel Who, in His goodness, is incarnate of thee. To Him do we cry: Bless the Lord, all ye works of the Lord!
The Transcendent One Who sitteth at the right hand of the Father desireth to make His habitation within thee, O pure one, that He might set thee, the beloved and comely one, at His own right hand like a Queen, and extend His right hand to all the fallen, and save us.
The Lord our Creator, recognizing thee as a pure rose of the valley, as a fragrant lily, hath now desired thy beauty, O pure one, and wisheth to become incarnate of thy blood, that with goodness He may dispel the stench of deception.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.