6. I cried with my whole heart to the merciful God, and he heard me from the lowest hades, and brought back my life from corruption. 7. We have sinned, we have transgressed, we have been unrighteous before thee, we have neither loved nor wrought that which thou hast commanded us; still, cast us not away at the last, O God of our fathers. 8. Him that heaven’s hosts glorify, and at whose presence quake the cherubim and seraphim, let every spirit and creature sing, bless, and set up for evermore. 9. From conception seedless unspeakable’s the birth, of Mother husbandless corruptless is the fruit; for God’s nativity hath nature form’d anew. Then we, all generations, right-believingly thee magnify as Mother who was divinely wed. XVII. Thou who man-lovingly in depth of wisdom orderest all, and unto all dost grant that which of service is, O Maker sole; rest thou thy servants’ souls, O Lord, for they have plac’d their trust in thee, Our Maker, and our Author, and our God. We have thee as a fortress and a haven, and am accepted mediatress with God, whom thou didst bear, God-bearing one unwed, salvation thou of them that faithful be.[6] XVIII. God is the Lord, and hath manifested himself unto us: blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.[7] XIX. Hear us, O God our Saviour, thou hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are far away upon the sea; and be merciful, be merciful, O Master, concerning our sins, and have mercy upon us. For a merciful and man-loving God thou art, and to thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages. XX. Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth, and to all ages. XXI. Forgive, remit, concede, O God, our sins, voluntary and involuntary, those in word and in deed, those in knowledge and in ignorance, those in the day and in the night, those in thought and in intention; concede them all to us, as being good and lover of mankind. XXII. And may the mercies of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ be with all of you.[8] NOTE III. THE EASTER CANON, ETC. TO ELUCIDATE CHAPTER XVII. _Troparion. Tone v._ Christ is risen from the dead, death by death down doth he tread, and on them that dwell in graves he bestoweth life. _Verse._ Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered, and let them that hate him flee from before him. _Verse._ As smoke is driven away, so drive them away, as wax melteth at the presence of fire, _Verse._ So let the sinners perish at the presence of God, but let the righteous rejoice. _Verse._ This is the day which the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad therein. _Verse._ Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. _Verse._ Both now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen. _And to every verse the troparion_, Christ is risen ... _is added_. _The Canon in tone i. Ode i._