Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Third Week of Great Lent - Page of 22
Thursday in the Third Week - At Vespers
Reader:
The Prokeimenon, Psalm 55, in the 6th Tone: Have
mercy on me O God, for man hath trodden me down.
Stichos:
Mine enemies have trodden me down all the day
long.
Deacon:
Wisdom!
Reader:
The reading
is from the
Prophecy of
Isaiah.
Deacon:
Let us
attend!
Gen 7:11 - 8:3
Reader:
11.
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the
second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month,
on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up,
and the flood-gates of heaven were opened.
12.
And the rain
was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13.
On that
very day entered Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth the sons of
Noe, and the wife of Noe, and the three wives of his sons
with him into the ark.
14.
And all the wild beasts after their
kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile
moving itself on the earth after its kind, and every flying
bird after its kind,
15.
went in to Noe into the ark, pairs,
male and female of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
16.
And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh,
as God commanded Noe and the Lord God shut the ark
outside of him.
17.
And the flood was upon the earth forty
days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and
bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the
earth.
18.
And the water prevailed and abounded
exceedingly upon the earth, and the ark was borne upon