Honour and faith are His who liveth forever; understanding and blessing are His who liveth forever; greatness and might are His who liveth forever; knowledge and utterance are His who liveth forever; magnificence and majesty are His who liveth forever; assembly and trustworthiness are His who liveth forever; brilliance and effulgence are His who liveth forever; grace and mercy are His who liveth forever; purity and goodness are His who liveth forever; preciousness and salvation are His who liveth forever; crown and glory are His who liveth forever; doctrine and encouragement are His who liveth forever; kingdom and power are His who liveth forever; beauty and victory are His who liveth forever; secret and intelligence are His who liveth forever; strength and humility are His who liveth forever; jubilation and righteousness are His who liveth forever; applause and holiness are His who liveth forever; splendour and wonder are His who liveth forever; song and praise are His who liveth forever; laud and loveliness are His who liveth forever.

Who is able to state one from a thousand thousands of thousands and a myriad myriads of myriads of Thy mighty deeds, O King of Kings of Kings, before whom the beasts are stationed and stand [speaking] with a still small voice – they are fire, their palate is fire, their movement is fire, their speech is fire, yet are they afraid because of fire, lest they be burned in flames of fire; it is Thou whom they encompass, it is Thou whom they surround; with Thee are they hidden, in Thy bosom do they give utterance, in secret and intelligence, girded with strength, clothed with magnificence. The eye may not travel to where Thou dwellest, King great and holy, ruler over the highest and over the lowest, over the first and over the last. There is none among the highest, nor among the lowest, nor among the first, nor among the last, who can know Thy works and search out all Thy wonders. Just as none is able to imagine ab, bc, cd, de, ef, fg, gh, hi, ij. Metatron whose name is called according to eight names, his name is Margawiel, his name is Gayothiel, his name is Ziwathiel, his name is ’Izihiel, his name is Yahawiel, his name is Mayoel, his name is Segansagiel, his name is Segansayriyah. And from the love with which they love him on high, they call him in the camps of the holy ones, Metatron, Servant of the Lord, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy. Blessed be thou O Lord, wise in secrets and Lord of hidden things, Amen, Amen, Selah, Selah.

Said Rabbi Ishmael: Rabbi Akiba did indeed say in the name of Rabbi Eliezer the Great: From the day when the Law was given to Israel until the last temple was built, the Law was given, its majesty was not given, and its preciousness, its glory and its greatness and its beauty, its terror, its reverence and its fear, its richness and its loftiness and its exaltation, its trembling and its splendour, its strength, its rule and its might were not given, until the last temple was built and the Shekinah did not dwell in it.