Divine Liturgy of St Basil- The Litany Before the Lord's Prayer - 80 -
loving kindness, and be merciful, O Lord our God,
unto those who love us, and those who hate us,
and those who have enjoined us, unworthy, to pray
for them; and all Thy people. And upon them all
pour out Thy rich mercy, granting unto all their
petitions which are unto salvation. And remember,
Thyself, O God, those whom we have not
remembered through ignorance, forgetfulness or
the multitude of names; as Thou knowest the age
and the name of each, and knowest every man
even from his mother's womb.
For Thou, O Lord, art the helper of the helpless, the
hope of the hopeless, and the savior of the
bestormed, the haven of the voyager, the physician
of the sick; be all things to all men, O Thou who
knowest each man and his petition, his home and
his need. Deliver, O Lord, this city
(or: all these or:
this sacred habitation)
and every city and land from
famine, plague, earthquake, flood, fire, sword, the
invasion of enemies, and from civil war.
Exclamation: