Irmos: Bless, young men, / equal to the Trinity, / God the Father the Creator, / sing praises to the Word, Who descended / and transformed fire into dew, / and exalt to all the life of the Giver / of the All-Holy Spirit, forever!

At the exaltation of the Tree, / sprinkled with the blood of the incarnate Word of God, / sing, O Heavenly Powers, / celebrating the restoration of mortals; / people, worship the Cross of Christ, / through which is the resurrection of the world forever.

Earthly stewards of grace, / raise up with your hands, as befits a holy thing, / the Cross on which Christ God stood, / and the spear that pierced the body of God the Word; / that all nations may see the salvation of God, / glorifying Him forever.

Rejoice, ye chosen by the will of God, / faithful Christian kings: / having received from God the sacred Cross, / rejoice in this victorious weapon: / for by it the nations, boldly seeking wars, / are scattered forever.

On the 9th canto we do not sing "By the Highest Honor of the Cherubim", even on Sunday, but we sing the refrain of the feast:

Magnify, O my soul, / the all-holy Cross of the Lord.

And the irmos: Thou, O Theotokos, art a mysterious paradise: Then the second choir sings the same refrain and irmos. And to the other six verses we sing the same refrain.

Ode 9

Irmos: Thou, O Mother of God, art the mysterious paradise, / Who hast brought forth Christ uncultivated, / By Whom the life-bearing tree of the Cross was planted on earth; / therefore, now, at his exaltation, / worshipping him, we magnify Thee.

Let all the oak trees rejoice; / for their nature was sanctified / by Him who planted them in the beginning – by Christ, / stretched out on the Tree; / Therefore, now, at His exaltation, / we worship Him and magnify Him.

For the divinely wise / the sacred horn of the Head of all / – the Cross, against which / all the horns of immaterial sinners are broken; / Therefore, now, at His exaltation, / we worship Him and magnify Him.

Another refrain of the holiday:

Magnify, O my soul, / the exaltation of the life-giving Cross of the Lord.

And the irmos: Death that has befallen our race: Then the second choir sings the same refrain and irmos. And to the other six verses we sing the same refrain.