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them] that rise up in the morning and follow strong drink;
who wait [at it till] evening: for the wine shall inflame
them.
12.
For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and
drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the
Lord, consider not the works of his hands.
13.
Therefore my
people have been taken captive, because they know not
the Lord: and there has been a multitude of dead [bodies],
because of hunger and of thirst for water.
14.
Therefore hell
has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without
ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her
pestilent men shall go down [into it].
15.
And the mean man
shall be brought low, and the great man shall be
disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.
16.
But
the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the
holy God shall be glorified in righteousness.
Reader:
The Prokeimenon, Psalm 26, in the 3rd Tone:
The
Lord is my light and my savior; whom then shall I fear?
Stichos:
The Lord is the defender of my life; of whom then
shall I be afraid?