The thrice-holy hymn: one line addressing God as holy, mighty and immortal. It is sung in the Divine Liturgy, said three times near the start of most prayer, and chanted as a body is carried to burial.
Every text below comes from the edition named under it and was checked twice, independently, before it appeared. Neither check was a person. That is a claim about wording only: nothing here is selected or endorsed for a particular situation, and nobody credentialed in the tradition has signed it. Older spelling is kept as the edition prints it.
The thrice-holy hymn: one line addressing God as holy, mighty and immortal. It is sung in the Divine Liturgy, said three times near the start of most prayer, and chanted as a body is carried to burial.
O Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us.
Isabel Florence Hapgood. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1906. Published 1906, before 1929, US public domain, and the translator died in 1928. Retrieved and verified 2026-09-17. Source
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Hapgood's is one English rendering among several, and most parishes today use a later one; hers is printed here because it is the one that is out of copyright. She is also not consistent with herself. The same prayer appears with different punctuation in different services of the same 1906 volume, so this is the text as printed in the Third Hour, and makes no claim to be the only form.
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