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Lord, have  mercy  on  us.

Christ, have  mercy  on  us.

Lord, have  mercy  on  us.

Christ, hear  us.

Christ, graciously  hear  us.

God the  Father  of  heaven,  Have  mercy  on  us.

God the  Son,  Redeemer  of  the  world,  Have  mercy  on  us.

God the  Holy  Ghost,  Have  mercy  on  us.

Holy Trinity,  one  God,  Have  mercy  on  us.

Who hast  made  man  to  thy  own  image  and likeness,

Who hast  breathed  into  man’s  face  the breath of  life,

Who broughtest  forth  in  the  midst  of  Paradise the  Tree  of  Life  against  the  death  of the  body,

Who, when  our  first  parents  were  become guilty of  death,  didst  set  up  the  Seed  of the  Woman  against  the  Serpent’s  malice,

Who hast  not  left  mankind  comfortless and helpless,  when  made  subject  by  sin  to manifold  miseries,  diseases,  and  death,

Who, when  all  the  first-born  of  Egypt  were destroyed in  one  night,  didst  preserve  the Israelites unhurt,

Who, for  the  sin  of  unbelief,  didst  cause Moses and  Aaron  to  die  out  of  the  Promised  Land,

Who, by  the  sight  of  the  brazen  Serpent, didst deliver  the  people  that  were  bitten by the  fiery  serpents,

Who, for  their  too  curiously  looking  into the Ark,  didst  destroy  with  death  more than fifty  thousand  of  the  Bethshamites,

Who, for  the  numbering  of  the  people  by David,  didst  carry  off  by  a three  days’  pes-