Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Second Week of Great Lent - Page of 24
Tuesday in the Second Week - At the Sixth Hour
Reader:
The Troparion of the Prophecy, 6th Tone:
Choir:
We cannot hymn Thee as is meet, but we ask
as we pray: destroy us not with our iniquities, O
Lord Who art ready to do good things.
GloryÁ-¬. Both NowÁ-¬
And the choir repeats the Troparion
Reader:
The Prokeimenon, Psalm 25, in the 6th Tone:
O
Lord, I have loved the beauty of Thy house, and the place
where Thy glory dwelleth.
Stichos:
Judge me, O Lord, for in mine innocence have I
walked.
Deacon:
Wisdom!
Reader:
The reading
is from the
Prophecy of
Isaiah.
Deacon:
Let us
attend!
Is. 5:7-16
Reader:
7.
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house
of Israel, and the men of Juda [his] beloved plant: I
expected [it] to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth
iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.
8.
Woe to [them]
that join house to house, and add field to field, that they
may take away something of their neighbor's. Will ye dwell
alone upon the land?
9.
For these things have reached the
ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should
be built, many and fair houses shall ye desolate, and there
shall ye no inhabitants in them.
10.
For where ten yoke of
oxen plough [the land] shall yield one jar-full, and he that
sows six homers shall produce three measures.
11.
Woe [to