1 (1) We give thanks to you for all things, O Master Almighty,
because you have not forsaken us with your mercies and your compassions;
2 but generation after generation you save, rescue, lay hold of, (and) shelter.
3 (2) For you laid hold of (people) in the days of Enos and Enoch,
in the days of Moses and Joshua,
in the days of the Judges,
in the days of Samuel and Elijah and of the Prophets.
in the days of David and of the Kings,
in the days of Esther and Mordecai,
in the days of Judith,
in the days of Judah Maccabeus, and of his brothers.
4 (3) And in our days you laid hold of us through your great High Priest, Jesus Christ your Child.
5 For even from the sword he rescued,
and from famine he delivered, having maintained (us);
6 from disease he healed,
(and) from an evil tongue he sheltered (us).
7 For all things we give thanks to you through Christ,
(to you) who even have given (us) an articulate voice for confession (of gratitude),
and have undergirded (it with) a harmonious tongue,
in the manner of a plectrum,
like a musical instrument;
8 and a useful (sense of) taste,
and a corresponding sense of touch,
and vision for sight,
and hearing for sound,
and a sense of smelling for vapors,
and hands for work,
and feet for travel.
9 (5) And all these things you have formed out of a little drop in a womb,
and after the shaping, you freely give immortal life
and you bring forward into light the rational animal, the man
10 With laws, you have taught (him);
with just ordinances, you have cleansed (him);
11 bringing on dissolution for a little while,
You have promised the resurrection!
12 (6) Therefore indeed, what manner of life is fully able,
and how great length of ages Will be sufficient for men for thanksgiving?
13 To do so worthily would be impossible,
but (to do so) according to (our) ability is holy.
14 For you have rescued (us) from the ungodliness of many gods,
(7) and you have delivered (us) from the heresy of the Christ-murderers;
You have set (us) free from the ignorance that has gone astray.
15 You have sent forth the Christ to men as a man, being uniquely born God;
you have caused the Paraclete to live in us;
you have set up angels (over us);
you have dishonored the devil.
16 Not being, you have made (us); having become, you watch over (us).
17 You measure out life;
you supply nourishment;
you have promised repentance.
18 (8) On behalf of all things, to you (be) the glory and the reverential awe,
through Jesus Christ, now and always, and into the ages. Amen.