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Lamp Lighting Psalm 140

Prayer Against Enticements of Wickedness

Samohlasen Tones

Patterns for chanting the Samohlasen tones. 

 

A note on translations and the method for chanting the beginning of Psalm 140.

The first two verses of the Psalm, with a refrain, are chanted in the tone of the first sticheron.

 O Lord, I have cried to You, hear me;
Refrain: Hear me, O Lord!
O Lord, I have cried to You, hear me;
receive the voice of my prayer when I call upon You.
Refrain: Hear me, O Lord!
Let my prayer rise like Incense before You;
and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
Refrain: Hear me, O Lord!
Tone 1 Tone 2 Tone 3 Tone 4
Tone 5 Tone 6 Tone 7 Tone 8

Then continue chanting Psalm 140 in the Psalm Tone.
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Set a guard, O Lord, before my mouth

and a portal around my lips.

-Incline my heart away from evil dealings,

from finding excuses for sinful deeds.

 

In the company with men who work iniquity

let me not partake of what they choose.

-May a just man chasten me with justice and reprove me;

may the oil of the wicked never touch my head.

 

Yet even then shall I pray for their welfare.

Their rulers were swallowed near the rock.

-My words will be heard, for they were sweet.

As a lump of clay broken on the ground, so their bones were strewn near the grave.

 

To You, Lord, O Lord, my eyes are lifted up;

in You have I hoped; let not my soul be lost.

-Keep me from the snare that was set up for me

and from the stumbling-blocks of wicked men.

 

The wicked shall fall into their own nets

while I remain alone until I can escape.

PSALM 141
Prayer of the Persecuted

-With my voice I cried to the Lord;

with all my voice I implored the Lord.

 

Before Him I pour out my supplications;

before Him I declare my distress.

-When my breath was escaping me,

then you knew my paths;

 

On the road upon which I was walking,

they set up snares for me.

-I looked to my right and observed

there was no one friendly to me;

 

Even flight was denied me;

there was no one to take care of my life.

-I cried out to You, O Lord, and said:

You are my hope, my share in the land of the living.

 

Listen to my supplication,

for I am laid very low.

-Deliver me from my oppressors;

for they have overwhelmed me.

 

Verses at the Stichera

10 Lead my soul forth from prison

that I may give thanks to Your name.

9 -The just shall gather around me

when You have been good to me.

PSALM 129
Prayer for Pardon and Mercy

8 Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord;

O Lord, hear my voice!

7 -Let Your ears be attentive

to the voice of my prayer.

 

6 If You mark iniquities, O Lord, who can stand?

But with You is forgiveness that You may be revered.

5 -I have waited for You as You have commanded;

my soul patiently relies on Your promise, for it has trusted in the Lord.

 

4 From the watch of dawn until night

let Israel long for the Lord

3 -For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him there is plentiful redemption;

and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.

 

PSALM 116
A Doxology

2 Praise the Lord, all the nations;

proclaim His glory, all you people.

1 -Strong is the love of the Lord for us;

eternally will His truth endure.

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Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:

And the Doxasticon, if prescribed.

Now and ever and forever. Amen.

And the Theotokion (Dogmaticon); if only a Theotokion is taken: Glory: Now and ever:
 

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