Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Second Week of Great Lent - Page of 24
take away the righteousness of the righteous.
24.
Therefore
as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be
consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff,
and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the
law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy
One of Israel.
25.
Therefore the Lord of hosts was greatly
angered against his people, and he reached forth his hand
upon them, and smote them: and the mountains were
troubled, and their carcasses were as dung in the midst of
the way: yet for all this his anger has not been turned
away, but his hand is yet raised.
Reader:
The Prokeimenon, Psalm 30, in the 6th Tone:
In
Thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me not be put to shame in
the age to come.
Stichos:
In Thy righteousness deliver me, and rescue me.