God of hosts, King of kings and Lord of lords! In Your hand is the heart of the king and the power of the whole earth. You place kings on their thrones and say about them: by me kings reign; do not touch my anointed ones. Look with Your merciful eye on our suffering country, in which, because of our iniquities, disorder and discord, civil strife and opposition to our king and the authorities established by him, have multiplied greatly. There is also pestilence, famine, and all kinds of illnesses, and there is no peace, no weakness, no peace in our homes, lower in our cities and towns. O Omniscient and Most Merciful! You weigh our misfortune, see the bitterness, hear the sobs of the poor, the groans of the orphans and widows and the voices of innocent babies suffering in public need. Thou didst spare Nineveh, a great city full of lawlessness, for the sake of its repentance and for the sake of the infants, who were like thy right hand, not knowing their own self: have mercy on us sinners, have mercy on our fatherland, have mercy for the sake of our babies, orphans and widows, who shed their tears before You, O Merciful One!
See, Lord, how people, who have no understanding, not only say in their hearts: there is no God, but also in the hearing of people, especially the young ones, they say corrupted, and they try to turn the least brethren from the path of Your commandments into the path of obstinate and destructive ones. But all essence is possible for You, O Almighty Master! For with Thy one word You not only heal the blind, the deaf and the dumb, but also raise the dead: thus have You now spoken with Your omnipotent word in the hearts of these sowers of wickedness: Enlighten their minds, darkened by pride, awaken their conscience with vain wisdom, envy and destructive passions put to sleep, turn their will to the fulfillment of Your life-giving commandments, so that they too will know how sweet the essence of Your words is to the human heart, and how good Your yoke and Your burden are light. May Thy name be glorified, O Lord our Savior, even in these perishing brothers of ours, and may our wicked adversary the devil be put to shame, who sows tares in Thy field, which is Thy holy Church! O Lord, Merciful God, Wise God, Almighty God!
Again and again we fall before You and cry tearfully in repentance and tenderness of heart: we have sinned, been lawless, unrighteous before You, and truly righteously we are punished for our deeds. Remember the faith and humility of our fathers, hear the warm prayers of Your holy saints who have shone in our land: have mercy on the Russian land, quench all sedition, discord and disorder, dying hearts, overwhelmed by passion, save Your beloved servant, our king, protect his throne with righteousness and peace, exclaim in his heart good and peaceful about Your Church and about Your people, send him advisers filled with wisdom and doing his will impartially, keep his judgments unpaid, breathe courage into the hearts of our guardian powers: and to whom he judged for the faith, the Tsar and the Fatherland in the days of tribulation, lay down your soul, thereby forgive all their sins and the crowns of martyrdom crown in Your Kingdom.
Illuminate all of us with the light of Thy Gospel law, warm our hearts with the warmth of Thy grace, confirm our will in Thy will, so as in ancient times, so now on our earth, and in us Thy all-holy name, of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, will be glorified, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.