Troparion of prophecy, tone 6:
We bow to Your Cross, Master, and we glorify Your Holy Resurrection.
Glory, and now: and we repeat the same.
Troparion of prophecy, tone 6: We worship Your Cross, O Lord, and glorify Your holy Resurrection!
Glory, even now: and we repeat the same troparion.
Prokeimenon (Psalm 69), tone 6: Let all who seek You, O God, rejoice and be glad in You.
Verse: God, attend to my help, Lord, seek my help.
(In the publication of the Lenten Triodion, M., 1992, another verse: Let those who wish us evil turn back and be ashamed.)
Prokeimenon (Psalm 69), tone 6: May all who seek You rejoice and rejoice, O God!
Verse: God, come to my aid, Lord, hasten to help me!
(In the publication Triodion Lenten, M., 1992, another verse: May those who wish harm to me be turned back and disgraced.)
Reading the prophecies of Isaiah. [Isa.26:21, 27:1-9]
Behold, the Lord from the holy [place] brings wrath upon those who dwell on the earth, and the earth reveals its blood, and does not cover those who are slain. On that day the Lord will bring the holy, and great, and strong sword against the fleeing dragon of the serpent, against the evil dragon of the serpent: and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea. On that day the grapes are good, you want to sing over them. I am a strong city, a warring city, I will give it water in vain: for it will be captured by night, and in the day its wall will fall. there is no one who can take it. Who will guide me among the stalks in the field? For the sake of enmity, I renounced and: for this reason, the Lord God created all things, a great council: And when it was burned, those who dwelt in it cried out: Let us make peace for him, let us create peace. The coming child of Jacob: Israel will vegetate and prosper, and the world will be filled with its fruit. If you eat food like that, will it hurt your skin? and just as you kill, you will be killed. Having boiled and reproaching, he will let me go: were you not thinking with a cruel spirit to kill me with a spirit of rage?
For this reason Jacob's iniquity will be taken away, and this is his blessing, when I have taken away his sin, when all the stones of the churches have been laid in pieces like dust: and Their trees will not remain, and their idols will be cut down, like oak forests far away.
Reading the prophecy of Isaiah [26:21; 27:1–9]
Behold, the Lord from a holy place sends His wrath upon the inhabitants of the earth to look at the iniquity of those living on the earth, and will do this to them: the earth will open its blood and will no longer cover those killed on it. On that day God will stretch out His holy sword, great and strong, against the dragon, the running serpent, against the dragon, the treacherous serpent, and will kill the dragon that dwells in the sea. On that day there will be a desire for a good vineyard to make a beginning for it. “I, a strong city, a besieged city, will water it in vain, for it will be captured by night, and its wall will fall by day, and there is no one who will not take it. Who will put Me in charge of the stubble in the field? Because of this enmity I rejected her.” So, because of this, the Lord did everything that He determined. “I am burned,” those living in it will exclaim, “let us make peace with Him, let us make peace!” The coming children of Jacob! Israel will sprout and blossom, and the world will be filled with its fruits. Is it really true that just as he was struck, he himself will be struck? And just as he killed, so will he himself be killed? With persistence and indignation he will let them go. Was it not you, in the hardness of your spirit, who planned to kill them with the spirit of wrath?
Therefore, Jacob’s iniquity will be atoned for, and this will be his blessing, when I take away his sin, when they crush all the stones of the altars and turn them into flying dust, and their trees and their idols will never again stand, uprooted like distant oak groves.
Prokeimenon (Psalm 70), tone 6: In Thee, O Lord, I have trusted,/ let me never be ashamed.
Verse: Deliver me through Your righteousness: incline Your ear to me and save me.
Prokeimenon (Psalm 70), tone 6: Lord, I have placed my hope in You and may I never be put to shame!
Verse: According to Your justice, deliver me, set me free! Turn Your ear to me and save me!