The Service Of Vespers

Priest. Blessed is our God always, now and forever and to the
ages of ages.
People: Amen.
Reader: Come, let us worship and bow down before our King and
God.
Come, let us worship and bow down before Christ our King and
God.
Come, let us worship and bow down before Christ himself, our
King and God.
Psalm 103 (104)
Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord, my God, you are very great.
You are lothed in praise and honor! who overs yourself with
light as with a garment, spreading out the heavens as a urtain.
You over your hambers with the waters! you ma"e the louds
your hariot! you wal" on the wings of the wind, you ma"e the
angels spirits, and your ministers a flaming fire. You established
the earth on its sure foundation! it shall never be moved. You
overed it with the deep as with a garment! the waters shall stand
on the hills. At your rebu"e they shall flee! at the voie of your
thunder they shall be alarmed. #hey go up to the mountains and
down to the plains, to the plae whih you founded for them. You
have set a boundary whih they shall not pass, neither shall they
turn again to over the earth. You send forth fountains among the
valleys! the waters shall run between the mountains. #hey shall
give drin" to all the beasts of the field! the wild don"eys shall
$uenh their thirst. By them the birds of the heavens shall have
their habitation! they shall sing among the ro"s.
You water the mountains from your hambers! the earth is
satisfied with the fruit of your mirales. You ma"e grass grow for
the attle, and vegetation for the servie of man that you may
bring bread out of the earth, and wine that gladdens the heart of
man, oil to ma"e his fae heerful, and bread whih strengthens
man%s heart. #he trees of the plain shall be full of sap, even the
edars of Lebanon whih you have planted. #here birds will build
their nests! the stor" has her home in the fir trees. #he high
mountains are a refuge for stags, and the ro" for the rabbits. You
appointed the moon for seasons! the sun "nows his going down.
You ma"e dar"ness and it is night! in it all the wild beasts of the
forest will reep about. Young lions roar for prey, and see" their
food from God. #he sun rises, and they gather together, and lie
down in their dens. &an goes forth to his wor", and to his labor
until the evening.
O Lord, how great are your wor"s. 'n wisdom you have made
them all. #he earth is filled with your reation. #his great and wide
sea, in whih are innumerable living things both small and great.
#here sail the ships, and there is Leviathan whih you have made
to play there. All wait for you, to give them their food in due
season. (hen you give it to them, they will gather it up! when you
open your hand, they shall be filled with goodness. But when you
have turned away your fae, they shall be troubled. (hen you
ta"e away their breath, they fail, and return to their dust. You sent
forth your )pirit, and they are reated! and you renew the fae of
the earth. &ay the glory of the Lord endure forever! may the Lord
re*oie in his wor"s! who loo"s upon the earth and ma"es it
tremble! who touhes the mountains and they smo"e. ' will sing
praises to the Lord all my life! ' will sing praises to my God as long
as ' live. &ay my meditation be sweet to him! ' will re*oie in the
Lord. &ay sinners and wi"ed men disappear from the earth and
may they be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul.
#he sun "nows its going down. You ma"e dar"ness, and it is
night. O Lord, how great are your wor"s. 'n wisdom you have
made them all.
Glory to the +ather and the )on and the ,oly )pirit, now and
forever and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Glory to you, O God -./. Lord, you are
our hope, glory to you.
The Great ita!"
Priest: 'n peae let us pray to the Lord.
People: Lord, have mery.
Priest: +or the peae of God and the salvation of our souls, let us
pray to the Lord.
People: Lord, have mery.
Priest: +or peae in the whole world, for the stability of the holy
hurhes of God, and for the unity of all, let us pray to the Lord.
People: Lord, have mery.
Priest: +or this holy house and for those who enter it with faith,
reverene, and the fear of God, let us pray to the Lord.
People: Lord, have mery.
Priest: +or our Arhbishop# the honorable presbyters, the deaons
in the servie of Christ, and all the lergy and laity, let us pray to
the Lord.
People: Lord, have mery.
avePriest: +or our ountry, the president, and all those in ivil
authority and publi servie, let us pray to the Lord.
People: Lord, have mery.
Priest: +or this parish and ity, for every ity and town, and for the
faithful who live in them, let us pray to the Lord.
People: Lord, have mery.
Priest: +or favorable weather, an abundane of the fruits of the
earth, and temperate seasons, let us pray to the Lord.
People: Lord, have mery.
Priest: +or travelers by land, sea and air, for the si", the
suffering, for aptives, and for their salvation, let us pray to the
Lord.
People: Lord, have mery.
Priest: +or our deliverane from all afflition, wrath, danger, and
distress, let us pray to the Lord.
People: Lord, have mery.
Priest: ,elp us, save us, have mery upon us and protet us, O
God, by your grae.
People: Lord, have mery.
Priest: 0emembering our most holy, pure, blessed, and glorious
Lady, the birthgiver of God and ever1virgin &ary, with all the
saints, let us ommit ourselves and one another and our whole
life to Christ our God.
People: #o You, O Lord.
Priest: +or to You belong all glory, honor, and worship, of the
+ather and the )on and the ,oly )pirit, now and forever and to
the ages of ages.
People: Amen.
Psalm 140 (141)
People: Lord, ' have ried out to you, hear me. ,ear me, O Lord.
Lord, ' have ried out to you, hear me. 0eeive the voie of my
prayer when ' ry out to you. ,ear me, O Lord.
Let my prayer be set forth as inense before you, the lifting up of
my hands as an evening sarifie. ,ear me, O Lord.
Psalm 141
2erse 3. Bring my soul out of prison that ' may give than"s to your
name.
2erse 4. #he righteous will surround me! for you will deal
bountifully with me.
Psalm 1$% (130)
2erse .. Out of the depths ' ry to you O Lord. Lord, hear my
voie.
2erse 5. Let your ears be attentive to the voie of my suppliation.
2erse 6. 'f you, O Lord, should mar" ini$uities, Lord who ould
stand7 But there is forgiveness with you.
2erse 8. +or your name%s sa"e ' have waited for you, O Lord! my
soul waits for your word. &y soul has trusted in the Lord.
2erse 9. +rom the morning wath :til night from the morning wath
let 'srael trust in the Lord.
2erse ;. +or with the Lord is mery and with him is plenteous
redemption! and he shall redeem 'srael from all its ini$uities.
Psalm 11& (11')
2erse <. =raise the Lord, all you nations! praise him, all you
people.
2erse 3>. +or his mery has been abundant toward us! and the
truth of the Lord endures forever.
Priest: Let us be attentive to the reading
=eople? #he reading is from @umbers
=riest? (isdom.
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Priest? Glory to You, O God, glory to You.
Priest: O Lord, "eep us this evening without sin. Blessed are you,
O Lord, God of our fathers, and praised and glorified is your name
to the ages. Amen. O Lord, let your mery be upon us for we have
set our hope in you. Blessed are you, O Lord, teah me your
ommandments. Blessed are you, &aster, grant me
understanding of your ommandments. Blessed are you, ,oly
One, enlighten me with your ommandments. Lord, your mery is
forever. Ao not despise the wor"s of your hands. #o you is due
praise, to you is due song, to you is due glory, to the +ather and
the )on and the ,oly )pirit, now and forever and to the ages of
ages.
People: Amen.
Priest: Let us omplete our prayer to the Lord.
People: Lord, have mery.
Priest: ,elp us, save us, have mery upon us, and protet us, O
God by your grae.
People: Lord, have mery.
Priest: +or a perfet, holy, peaeful, and sinless day, let us as"
the Lord.
People: Grant this, O Lord.
Priest: +or an angel of peae, a faithful guide, a guardian of our
souls and bodies, let us as" the Lord.
People: Grant this, O Lord.
Priest: +or forgiveness and remission of our sins and
transgressions, let us as" the Lord.
People: Grant this, O Lord.
Priest: +or all that is good and benefiial to our souls, and for
peae in the world, let us as" the Lord.
People: Grant this, O Lord.
Priest: +or the ompletion of our lives in peae and repentane,
let us as" the Lord.
People: Grant this, O Lord.
Priest: +or a Christian end to our lives, peaeful, without shame
and suffering, and for a good aount of ourselves before the
awesome *udgment seat of Christ, let us as" the Lord.
People: Grant this, O Lord.
Priest: 0emembering our most holy, pure, blessed, and glorious
Lady, the birthgiver of God and ever1 virgin &ary, with all the
saints, let us ommit ourselves and one another and our whole
life to Christ our God.
People: #o you, O Lord.
Priest: +or you are a good and loving God, and to you we give
glory, to the +ather and the )on and the ,oly )pirit, now and
forever and to the ages of ages.
People: Amen.
Priest: =eae be with all.
People: And with your spirit.
Priest: Let us bow our heads to the Lord.
People: #o you, O Lord.
Priest: &ay the might of your "ingdom be blessed and glorified, of
the +ather and the )on and the ,oly )pirit, now and forever and
to the ages of ages.
People: Amen.
Priest: Glory to You, Christ our God and our hope, glory to you. &ay Christ our true
God, who rose from the dead as a good, loving and meriful God, have mery upon us
and save us, through the interessions of his most pure and holy &other! the power of
the preious and life1giving Cross! the protetion of the honorable, bodiless powers of
heaven! the suppliations of the honorable, glorious prophet and forerunner Bohn the
Baptist! the holy, glorious, and praiseworthy Apostles! the holy, glorious, and triumphant
&artyrs! our holy God1bearing +athers! the holy, and righteous anestors of God
Boahim and Anna and all the saints.