O Maiden and Virgin pure, the great Archangel beholding you, the animate book of Christ, which by the Spirit was sealed, did exclaim to you: Rejoice, O joy’s container, through whom shall the curse upon the primal mother be loosed.
Χριστοῦ βίβλον ἔμψυχον, ἐσφραγισμένην σε Πνεύματι, ὁ μέγας Ἀρχάγγελος, Ἁγνὴ θεώμενος, ἐπεφώνει σοι· Χαῖρε χαρὰς δοχεῖον, δι’ ἧς τῆς Προμήτορος ἀρὰ λυθήσεται.