Vespers - Prayers at Lamplighting Time
come before Thy presence with thanksgiving and
to offer thee evening doxology; Do thyself direct
our prayer as incense before Thee and accept it for
a sweet smelling savor; grant unto us that the
present evening and the coming night be peaceful.
Cloth us with the armor of light. Deliver us from the
terror by night and from everything that walketh in
darkness. And grant that the sleep which Thou hast
given for the repose of our infirmity may be free
from all fantasies of the Devil. Yea, O Master, Giver
of good things, may we, being moved to
compunction upon our beds, remember Thy name
in the night, and, enlightened by meditation on Thy
commandments, rise up in joyfulness of soul to the
glorification of Thy goodness, offering prayers and
supplications to Thy lovingkindness for our own
sins and for those of all Thy people, whom do Thou
visit in mercy, through the intercessions of the Holy
Theotokos. For a good God art Thou, and unto
Thee do we send up glory: to the Father and to the
Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto
the ages of ages. Amen.