Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Second Week of Great Lent - Page of 24
Reader:
The Prokeimenon, Psalm 36, in the 6th Tone: Wait
on the Lord, and keep His way.
Stichos:
Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, nor envy them
that work iniquity.
Deacon:
Wisdom!
Reader:
The reading
is from Proverbs.
Deacon:
Let us
attend!
Prov 6:3-20
Reader:
3.
My son, do what I command thee, and deliver
thyself; for on thy friend's account thou art come into the
power of evil men: faint not, but stir up even thy friend for
whom thou art become surety.
4.
Give not sleep to thine
eyes, nor slumber with thine eyelids;
5.
that thou mayest
deliver thyself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out
of a snare.
6.
Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and
emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.
7.
For
whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him,
and is under no master,
8.
he prepares food for himself in
the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. Or go
to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how
earnestly she is engaged in her work; whose labors kings
and private men use for health, and she is desired and
respected by all: though weak in body, she is advanced by
honoring wisdom.
9.
How long wilt thou lie, O sluggard? and
when wilt thou awake out of sleep?
10.
Thou sleepest a
little, and thou restest a little, and thou slumberest a short
time, and thou foldest thine arms over thy breast a little.
11.
Then poverty comes upon thee as an evil traveler, and
want as a swift courier: but if thou be diligent, thine