This hymn – together with the accompanying rite of venerating the Cross – replaces the usual Trisagion hymn during the Divine Liturgy on the Third Sunday of Great Lent. According to The Synaxarion of the Lenten Triodion and Pentecostarion...
All the nations you have made shall come and bow down before you, O Lord,
and shall glorify your name. ...
You have shown favor to Your land, O Lord;
You have turned back the captivity of Jacob! ...
How lovely is thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts!
My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the Lord; ...
Having had the opportunity to sing an operetta with the local symphony orchestra, it’s remarkable to me how wonderfully our Orthodox liturgical progression from Pre-Lent to Lent to Holy Week to…
O God do not keep silence; do not hold thy peace or be still, O God!
For lo, thy enemies are in tumult; those who hate thee have raised their heads. ...
Arise, O God, judge the earth: for to Thee belong all the nations! (Refrain)
God has taken His place in the divine council; ...
Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp. ...
Lord, Lord, look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine which Thy right hand has planted, and establish it.
Pour out Thy anger on the nations that do not know Thee, and on the kingdoms that do not call on Thy Name!
Return sevenfold…