O Lord our God, we do beseech you, look upon the faint hearted and those who are swooning through affliction. Bring up your people from the depths of the sea.
Take away our mourning and give us music; remove our sackcloth and give us beauty; take away our sighs and fill our mouths with songs and let this be a radiant day of gladness, a time of feasting from the Bridegroom’s own hand; and may our own spirits rejoice in him, with joy unspeakable and full of glory.