In Your lovingkindness, You led the people You redeemed.
In Your strength, You guided them to Your holy abode.
Nations heard and trembled;
terror gripped Philistia’s inhabitants.
The chiefs of Edom were dismayed,
Moab’s leaders were seized with trembling,
the people of Canaan melted away.
Fear and dread fell upon them.
By the power of Your arm, they were still as stone –
until Your people crossed, O LORD,
until the people You acquired crossed over.
You will bring them and plant them on the mountain of Your heritage –
the place, LORD, You made for Your dwelling,
the sanctuary, LORD, Your hands established.
The LORD will reign for ever and all time.
The LORD will reign for ever and all time.
When Pharaoh’s horses, chariots and riders went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them, but the Israelites walked on dry land through the sea. For kingship is the LORD’S and He rules over the nations. Saviours shall go up to Mount Zion to judge Mount Esau, and the Lord’s shall be the kingdom. Then shall the LoRD be King over all the earth. On that day shall the LoRD be One and His name One, as it is written in Your Torah, saying: Listen, Israel: the LORD is our GOD, the LORD is ONE.
BLESSING AFTER VERSES OF PRAISE
May Your name be praised for ever, our King, the great and holy GOD, King in heaven and on earth. For to You, LORD our GOD and GOD of our ancestors, it is right to offer song and praise, hymn and psalm, strength and dominion, eternity, greatness and power, song of praise and glory, holiness and kingship, blessings and thanks, from now and for ever. Blessed are You, Lord, God and King, exalted in praises, GoD of thanksgivings, Master of wonders, who delights in hymns of song, King, GOD, Giver of life to the world.
Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and on Hoshana Rabba, some congregations say this psalm responsively, verse by verse. The Ark is opened for this psalm.
PSALM 130
A song of ascents. From the depths I have called to You, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea. If You, LORD, should keep account of sins, who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness, that You may be held in awe. I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in His word I put my hope. My soul waits for the LORD more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning. Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD there is lovingkindness, and great is His power to redeem. It is He who will redeem Israel from all their sins.
The Leader says half-Kaddish.
Leader:
Magnified and sanctified may His great name be, in the world He created by His will. May He establish His kingdom in your lifetime and in your days, and in the lifetime of all the House of Israel, swiftly and soon – and say: Amen.
All:
May His great name be blessed for ever and all time.
Leader:
Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, raised and honoured, uplifted and lauded be the name of the Holy One, blessed be He, beyond any blessing, song, praise and consolation uttered in the world – and say: Amen.
The Leader says the following, bowing at “Bless', standing straight at “The LORD”:
Bless the LORD, the blessed One.
The Congregation, followed by the Leader, responds, bowing at “Bless”, standing straight at “The LORD”:
Bless the LORD, the blessed One, for ever and all time.
BLESSINGS OF THE SHEMA
Blessed are You, LORD our GOD, King of the Universe, who forms light and creates darkness, makes peace and creates all.
In compassion He gives light to the earth and its inhabitants, and in His goodness continually renews the work of creation, day after day. How many are Your works, O LORD. You made them all in wisdom. The earth is full of Your creations. He is the King exalted alone since the beginning of time – praised, glorified and elevated since the world began. Eternal GOD, in Your great compassion, have compassion on us, LORD of our strength, Rock of our refuge, Shield of our salvation, You are our stronghold.
The blessed GOD, great in knowledge, prepared and made the rays of the sun. He who is good formed glory for His name, surrounding His power with radiant stars. The leaders of His hosts, the holy ones, exalt the Almighty, constantly proclaiming GOD’S glory and holiness. Be blessed, LORD our GOD, for the magnificence of Your handiwork and for the radiant lights You have made. May they glorify You, Selah!
May You be blessed, our Rock, King and Redeemer, Creator of holy beings. May Your name be praised for ever, our King, Creator of the ministering angels, all of whom stand in the universe’s heights, proclaiming together, in awe, aloud, the words of the living GOD, the eternal King. They are all beloved, all pure, all mighty, and all perform in awe and reverence the will of their Maker. All open their mouths in holiness and purity, with song and psalm, and bless, praise, glorify, revere, sanctify and declare the sovereignty of –
The name of the great, mighty and awesome GOD and King, holy is He. All accept on themselves, one from another, the yoke of the kingdom of heaven, granting permission to one another to sanctify the One who formed them, in serene spirit, pure speech and sacred melody, and all, as one, respond, saying in awe:
All, aloud:
Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts: the whole world is filled with His glory.
awesome in glory,
