Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Third Week of Great Lent - Page of 22
Wednesday in the Third Week - At the Sixth Hour
Reader:
The Troparion of the Prophecy 8th Tone:
Choir:
There is no spiritual essence of good works in us, O
Lord, but merciful art Thou, O Lover of Mankind; disdain not
the work of Thy hands, O Sinless One.
GloryÁ-¬. Both NowÁ-¬
And the choir repeats the Troparion
Reader:
The Prokeimenon, Psalm 49, in the 4th Tone:
Sacrifice unto God a sacrifice of praise, and pay unto the
Most High thy vows.
Stichos:
The God of gods, the Lord, hath spoken, and He hath
covered the earth.
Deacon:
Wisdom!
Reader:
The reading
is from the
Prophecy of
Isaiah.
Deacon:
Let us
attend!
Is 10:12-20
Reader:
12.
And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall
have finished doing all things on Mount Sion and
Jerusalem, [that] I will visit upon the proud heart, [even]
upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful
haughtiness of his eyes.
13.
For he said, I will act in
strength, and in the wisdom of [my] understanding I will
remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their
strength.
14.
And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will
take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even
take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none
that shall escape me, or contradict me.
15.
Shall the ax