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.

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Irmos: Death, which befell our race through eating of the tree, / is abolished by the Cross on this day; / for the universal curse for the fault of the foremother / has been destroyed by the Branch of the pure Mother of God, / Whom all the Powers of Heaven magnify.

Not allowing the murderous bitterness from the tree, O Lord, / Thou hast utterly destroyed it with the Cross; / That is why the tree / once ceased the bitterness of the waters of Marah, / anticipating the action of the Cross, / which all the powers of heaven magnify.

Thou hast exalted those who were constantly plunging into darkness in the darkness of the forefather, O Lord, on this day by the Cross: / for as before our nature / was utterly irresistibly cast down by error, / so again the light of Thy Cross has completely corrected us, / which we, the faithful, magnify.

In order to show the world the venerated image of the Cross / in all its glory, O Lord, / Thou hast depicted it in heaven / in immeasurable light, / for the king with an invincible armor, / which all the Powers of Heaven magnify.

Luminary, Tone 2

Like: When the disciples looked upon Thee: