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evening, I pray, together with the night * without
temptation grant me, O Savior, * and save me.

Choir 1:

Both now and ever, * and unto the ages of ages.

Amen.

The day being past, I hymn Thee, O Holy One; * the
evening, I pray, together with the night * without peril grant
me, O Savior, * and save me.

Then the two choirs together, alternating phrases:

In the Sixth Tone:

The bodiless nature of the Cherubim * with unceasing
hymns glorify Thee. * The six-winged beings, the
Seraphim, * with never-ceasing voices supremely exalt
Thee. * And all the ranks of the Angels * praise Thee with
thrice-holy hymns. * For before all art Thou the existing
Father, * and Thou hast Thy co-unoriginate Son; * and
bearing the co-honorable Spirit of life, * Thou dost
manifest the Indivisible Trinity. * O Most holy Virgin Mother
of God, * and ye eyewitnesses of the Word and servants, *
all the choirs both of Prophets and Martyrs, * as those that
have attained unto life immortal, * supplicate earnestly for
us all, * for we all are in distress; * that, being delivered
from the delusion of the evil one, * we may cry out the
angelic hymn: Holy, Holy, Holy, Thrice-holy Lord, * have
mercy and save us. Amen.

And immediately, in a lower voice, the reader:

Reader:

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven

and the earth and of all things visible and invisible. And in one
Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-begotten, begotten of
the Father before all ages; Light of Light, true God of true God;