105. Alleluia.

Confess to the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endures for ever. Who will tell the power of the Lord, who will declare all His praises for all to hear? Blessed are those who keep (right) judgment and do righteousness at all times! Remember us, O Lord, in favor with Thy people, visit us with Thy salvation, that we may see the prosperity of Thy elect, that we may rejoice in the gladness of Thy people, that we may rejoice in Thy inheritance. We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have committed iniquity. Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Thy wonders, did not remember the multitude of Thy mercy, and grieved (Thee) when they entered the Red Sea. But he saved them for his name's sake, to show his power, and he kept the Red Sea, and it was dried up, and led them into the abyss as through the wilderness. And he saved them from the hand of those who hate, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies. The waters covered their oppressors: not one of them remained. And they believed his word, and sang his praises. But soon they forgot His works, they did not endure His counsel. And they gave themselves over to excessive desire in the wilderness, and tempted God in the waterless wilderness. And He fulfilled their request: He sent gluttony to their souls. And they angered Moses in the camp, Aaron the priest of the Lord. The earth opened up, and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the crowd of Abiram. And a fire was kindled in their crowd, the flame burned up sinners. And they made a calf at Horeb, and worshipped the image. And they exchanged His glory for the likeness of a calf eating grass. And they forgot God, their Saviour, who did great things in Egypt, miracles in the land of Ham, terrible things in the Red Sea. And he said, "Destroy them," if Moses, His chosen one, had not stood in contrition before Him, (beseeching) to turn away His wrath, that He might not destroy them. And they despised the land they desired, they did not believe His word. And they reproached in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the Lord. And he lifted up his hand against them, to bring them down in the wilderness, and to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them into countries. And they served Beelphegor, and ate sacrifices to the dead. And they provoked Him with their works, and great was their plague. But Phinehas arose, and propitiated him, and the plague ceased. And (this) was counted to him for righteousness, for generations and generations for ever. And they provoked him to anger at the water of strife, and Moses suffered because of them: For they grieved his spirit, and he sinned with his mouth. They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke to them. And they mingled with the Gentiles, and learned their works. And they served their idols, and it was a stumbling block to them: And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. And they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the images of Canaan, and the land was slain with their blood, and was defiled by their works. And they committed fornication by their deeds. And the Lord was angry with his people, and abhorred his inheritance. And he delivered them into the hands of his enemies, and those who hated them prevailed over them. And their enemies pressed them, and they humbled themselves under their hands. Many times He delivered them, but they grieved Him with their stubbornness, and were humiliated for their iniquities. And the Lord saw when they were grieving, and heard their prayers, and remembered his covenant, and repented according to the abundance of his mercy. And he bowed his bounties to them before all those who had taken them captive. Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, to confess Thy holy name, to glory in Thy praise. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say, Let it be, let it be.

Glory:

106. Alleluia.

Confess to the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endures for ever. Let those who have been delivered by the Lord say, whom he has delivered out of the hand of the enemy, and gathered them from the countries, from the east and the west, and the north and the sea. They wandered in a waterless desert, finding no way to the inhabited city. They hungered and thirsted, (so that) their life was lost in them. But they cried unto the Lord in their affliction, and he delivered them out of their need. And he led them in a straight way, that they might enter the inhabited city. May His mercies be confessed to the Lord, and His wonders to the sons of men! For He has nourished the weary soul, and satisfied the hungry soul with good things: Those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, bound with poverty and iron. Since they resisted the words of God and did not obey the advice of the Most High, their hearts were pacified by their labors, and they fainted, and they had no helper. But they cried unto the Lord in their affliction, and he delivered them from their wants. And He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and tore their bands. May His mercies be confessed to the Lord, and His wonders to the sons of men! For He has broken the gates of brass, and broken the bars of iron. He took them out of the way of their iniquity, for because of their iniquities they were humbled. Their souls abhorred all food, and they drew near to the gates of death. But they cried unto the Lord in their affliction, and he delivered them from their wants. He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from their corruption. May His mercies be confessed to the Lord, and His wonders to the sons of men! Let them offer Him a sacrifice of praise, and let them announce His works with joy those who go to sea in ships, having business in great waters. They saw the works of the Lord and His wonders in the depths. He spoke, and a stormy wind arose, and his waves were lifted up: They ascend to the heavens, and descend to the depths, their souls faint in calamity. They trembled and swayed like a drunken man, and all their wisdom was gone. But they cried unto the Lord in their affliction, and he brought them out of their wants. And he commanded the storm, and silence fell, and the waves raised by it were silent. And they rejoiced that they were still, and He brought them to the harbor that He desired. May His mercies be confessed to the Lord, and His wonders to the sons of men! Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people, and praise Him in the assembly of the elders! He turned rivers into a desert and springs of water into a thirsty land. Fruitful land – into a salt marsh, for the malice of those who live on it. He turned the desert into lakes of (many) waters, and the dry land into sources of water. And he dwelt there the hungry, and they built a city to dwell in, and sowed fields, and planted vineyards, and received fruit from plants. And he blessed them, and they multiplied exceedingly, and did not diminish their cattle. But they were diminished and began to be in poverty, as a result of suffering from evil and sickness. Humiliation was poured out on their princes, and He left them to wander in an impassable place. And he helped the poor (to be delivered) from poverty, and made the tribes (numerous) like sheep. The righteous will see and rejoice, and all iniquity will stop their mouths. Who is wise and will keep it? And they will understand the mercies of the Lord.

Glory:

107. Song. Psalm of David. 

My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing and sing in my glory. Arise, my glory, arise, psalter and harp, I will rise early. I will confess to Thee, O Lord, among the nations, I will sing to Thee among the nations. For great is Thy mercy, above the heavens, and Thy truth is unto the clouds. Ascend into heaven, O God, and Thy glory be upon all the earth. May Thy beloved be delivered, save me with Thy right hand and hear me. God said in His sanctuary, "I will be exalted, and I will divide Shechem, and I will measure the valley of dwellings: Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, Ephraim is the protection of my head, Judah is my king, Moab is the vessel of my hope, I will set my boot on Idumea. The foreigners have submitted to me." Who will bring me into the fortified city? Or who will bring me to Idumea? Are you not, O God, who rejected us, and are you not God, (who) do not proceed with our strength? Give us help in sorrow, for human salvation is in vain. With God's help let us show power, and He will humble our enemies.

108. In the end. Psalm of David.

Gosh! Do not be silent to my praise. For the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the flatterer were opened against me, they spoke against me with a flattering tongue, And with words of hatred they surrounded me, and armed themselves against me without my guilt: Instead of loving me, they lied against me, and I prayed, And they repaid me with evil for good, and with hatred for my love. Set a sinner over him, and let the devil stand at his right hand. When he is judged, let him come out condemned, and let his prayer be a sin. Let his days be short, and let his dignity be assumed by another. Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Wandering, let his sons move away and ask that they be driven out of their homes. Let the lender demand all that he has, and let strangers plunder what he has acquired by his labors. Let him have no intercessor, and let him not be generous to his fatherless. Let his children be destroyed, let his name be blotted out with one generation. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and let not the sin of his mother be cleansed. May they always be before the Lord, and may their memory be cut off from the earth, because he did not think to show mercy, but persecuted a poor man, and a needy, and a brokenhearted man, in order to put him to death. And he loved the curse, and it would come upon him, and he did not desire the blessing, and it would depart from him. And he clothed himself with a curse as a garment, and it entered into his womb like water, and into his bones like oil. Let it be to him like the garment in which he is clothed, and like the girdle with which he always girds himself. Such is the fate of those who slander me before the Lord, and speak evil against my soul. But thou, O Lord, Lord, do unto me according to thy name, for thy mercy is good: deliver me, for I am poor and wretched, and my heart is troubled within me. Like a shadow, when it evades, I have vanished, I have been driven out like locusts. My knees are faint from fasting, and my body is changed from (deprivation) of oil. And I became a laughing stock to them: when they saw me, they nodded their heads. Help me, O Lord my God, and save me according to Thy mercy. And let them understand that such is Thy hand, and that Thou, O Lord, hast done it. They will curse, but Thou shalt bless, let them that rise up against me be ashamed, but Thy servant shall rejoice. Let those who slander me be clothed with shame, and be covered with their shame as with a garment. But I will loudly confess the Lord with my mouth, and in the midst of the multitude I will praise Him, for He has stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from the persecutors.

Glory: According to the 15th kathisma, the Trisagion. The same troparia, tone 1: 

For the abyss of many of my sins, O Saviour, and thou hast been plunged into my sins: give me thy hand as Peter's, and save me, O God, and have mercy on me.

Glory: For evil thoughts and deeds have been condemned, O Saviour, grant me conversion, O God, that I may call: save me, O Good Benefactor, and have mercy on me. And now: O God-blessed Virgin and Most Immaculate Maiden, I am filthy and defiled by my unbearable deeds and filthy thoughts, cleanse me, accursed, Undefiled and Pure, All-Holy Virgin Mother.

Lord, have mercy (40) and the prayer: