Fortunate are those who dwell

in Your house;

may they continue to praise You, Selah.

Fortunate is the people whose lot is thus;

fortunate is the people

for whom Adonoy is their God.

A praise by Dovid!

I will exalt You, my God, the King,

and bless Your Name forever and ever.

Every day I will bless You

and extol Your Name forever and ever.

Adonoy is great and highly extolled,

and His greatness is unfathomable.

One generation to another

will praise Your works,

and Your mighty acts they will declare.

The splendor of Your glorious majesty,

and the words of Your wonders I will speak.

Of Your awesome might, they will speak,

and Your greatness I will recount.

Mention of Your bountifulness

they will express,

and in Your righteousness joyfully exult.

Adonoy is gracious and merciful,

slow to anger and great in kindliness.

Adonoy is good to all,

His mercy encompasses all His works.

All Your works will thank You, Adonoy,

and Your pious ones will bless You.

Of the honor of Your Kingship,

they will speak,

and Your might they will declare.

To reveal to men His mighty acts,

and the glorious splendor of His Kingship.

Your Kingship is the kingship for all times,

and Your dominion is in every generation.

Adonoy supports all the fallen,

and straightens all the bent.

The eyes of all look expectantly to You,

and You give them

their food at its proper time.

You open Your hand

and satisfy the desire of every living being.

Adonoy is just in all His ways

and benevolent in all His deeds.

Adonoy is near to all who call upon Him,

to all who call upon Him in truth.

The will of those who fear Him, He fulfills;

He hears their cry and delivers them.

Adonoy watches over all those who love Him,

and will destroy all the wicked.

Praise of Adonoy, my mouth will declare

and all flesh will bless

His Holy Name forever and ever.

And we will bless God

from now forever.

Praise God.

The Redeemer shall come to Tziyon

and to those of Yaakov who repent from sin,

says Adonoy.

As for Me, this is My covenant with them,

said Adonoy:

My spirit which is upon you,

and My words

which I have put in your mouth

shall not depart from your mouth,

nor from the mouth of your children,

nor from the mouth

of your children’s children,

said Adonoy—

from now to eternity.

And You, Holy One,

are enthroned upon the praises of Yisrael.¹

footnotes: ¹ Hashem waits to hear the praises of Yisrael before He listens to the praises of the angels.—Etz YosefHashem waits until the very last congregation of Jews has completed its prayers and then accepts the prayers of all Yisrael at one time.—Avudraham

And [the angels] call one to another and say:

“Holy, holy, holy

is Adonoy of Hosts:²

footnotes: ² According to the Targum interpretation, the thrice “holy” in the Kedushah does not indicate three ascending degrees of sanctification. Instead its implies a declaration that He Who is holy in the loftiest regions of His heavenly abode is holy not only there but also on earth, the creation of His Almighty power; and that He was not only holy in the past, but that He is holy even now and will be holy throughout all the ages.—S.R. Hirsch

the fullness of all the earth is His glory.”³

footnotes: ³ Yeshaya 6:3

And they receive [sanction] one from another,

and say,

“Holy in the highest heights of heaven,

the abode of His Divine Presence;

holy upon earth,

the work of His mighty power;

holy forever and to all eternity—

is Adonoy of Hosts;

the whole earth is filled

with the radiance of His glory.”

And a wind lifted me;

and I heard behind me

the sound of a great rushing;

“Blessed is the glory of Adonoy

from His place.”⁴⁵

footnotes: ⁴ Yechezkel 3:12 ⁵ See note 43 on Page 285.

“And a wind lifted me

and I heard behind me

a sound of a great rushing

of those who uttered praises and said,

“Blessed is the glory of Adonoy

from the place,

the abode of His Divine Presence.”

Adonoy will reign forever and ever.⁶

footnotes: ⁶ Shemos 15:18

Adonoy, His Kingdom is established

forever and to all eternity.

Adonoy,

God of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yisrael,

our fathers,

keep this forever

as the intention of the hearts of Your people,

and direct their hearts to You.⁷⁸

footnotes: ⁷ Divrei Hayamim I 29:18 ⁸ May our recitation of the Kedushah inspire our thoughts and direct our hearts to serve You.—Avudraham

And He, the merciful One,

atones iniquity and does not destroy;

He frequently withdraws His anger

and does not arouse all His rage.⁹

footnotes: ⁹ Tehillim 78:38

For You, my Master, are good and forgiving,

and abounding in kindness

to all who call upon You.¹⁰

footnotes: ¹⁰ Tehillim 86:5

Your righteousness is everlasting

and Your Torah is truth.¹¹

footnotes: ¹¹ Tehillim 119:142

You will grant truth to Yaakov

kindliness to Avraham,¹²

footnotes: ¹² The patriarchs symbolize the three pillars of the universe—Torah, avodah,—the Temple service and gemilas chasadim—kindliness. Yaakov epitomized Torah, which is the ultimate truth; Yitzchak personified Divine service in his readiness to be offered as a sacrifice to Hashem; and Avraham exemplified the ideal and practice of kindliness throughout his life. We thus pray to be granted a share in the Divine truth of Torah in Yaakov’s merit, and to receive Hashem’s kindliness in Avraham’s merit.

as You have sworn to our fathers

from the days of old.¹³

footnotes: ¹³ Michah 7:20

Blessed is my Master day by day;

He loads us, [with blessings]¹⁴

footnotes: ¹⁴ Etz Yosef interprets the verse in this manner: “Blessed is Adonoy who loads us each day with His blessings and goodness.”

the Almighty Who is our deliverance,

forever.¹⁵

footnotes: ¹⁵ Tehillim 68:20

Adonoy of Hosts is with us

a stronghold for us

is the God of Yaakov, selah.¹⁶

footnotes: ¹⁶ Tehillim 46:8

Adonoy of Hosts,

fortunate is the man who trusts in You.¹⁷

footnotes: ¹⁷ Tehillim 84:13

Adonoy, deliver [us];

the King will answer us on the day we call.¹⁸

footnotes: ¹⁸ Tehillim 20:10

Blessed is He, our God,

Who created us for His glory,¹⁹

footnotes: ¹⁹ This phrase is based on Yeshaya 43:7 “Everything that is called by My Name, I have created it for My glory.”

and set us apart from those who go astray;²⁰

footnotes: ²⁰ This prayer is based on Yehoshua 24:2, 3, “Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the river—and they served other gods. And I took your father Avraham from the other side of the river.” See Bereishis 20:13 as interpreted by Onkelos.

and gave us the Torah of truth,

and eternal life He implanted within us.

May He open our heart to His Torah,

and instill in our heart love and awe of Him,

to do His will and serve Him

with a perfect heart,

so that we shall not labor in vain²¹

footnotes: ²¹ Some women are barren; they cannot bear children at all. Others have children who are unable to live. Similarly, there are those who study Torah only to criticize and ridicule what they learn, while others learn sincerely but later rebel against its teachings. Those who study to ridicule are comparable to the barren women who are unable to give birth. But those who later rebel are like those who bear children and bury them. We pray to Hashem to instill His love and fear in our hearts so that our learning will bear fruit and have a lasting influence on our lives.—Siddur HaGra

nor bring forth that which causes dismay.²¹

footnotes: ²¹ Some women are barren; they cannot bear children at all. Others have children who are unable to live. Similarly, there are those who study Torah only to criticize and ridicule what they learn, while others learn sincerely but later rebel against its teachings. Those who study to ridicule are comparable to the barren women who are unable to give birth. But those who later rebel are like those who bear children and bury them. We pray to Hashem to instill His love and fear in our hearts so that our learning will bear fruit and have a lasting influence on our lives.—Siddur HaGra

May it be Your will,

Adonoy, our God, and God of our fathers,

that we keep Your statutes in this world,

and [thus] be privileged to live and behold,

and to inherit the goodness and blessing

of the Messianic days

and in the life of the World to Come.

In order that my soul sing to You

and not be stilled;

Adonoy, my God, forever will I thank You.²²

footnotes: ²² Tehillim 30:13

Blessed is the man who trusts in Adonoy,²³

footnotes: ²³ He does not just put his trust in Hashem while relying also upon a great many other factors which he considers the essential supports of his life and happiness. Hashem alone is the source of his trust; he relies on none other than Hashem.—S.R. Hirsch

so that Adonoy is his security.²⁴

footnotes: ²⁴ Yirmiyahu 17:7

Trust in Adonoy until the end of days,

for in God,

Adonoy, is the strength of the worlds.²⁵

footnotes: ²⁵ Yeshaya 26:4

They will trust in You—

those who know²⁶ your Name

footnotes: ²⁶ These are men of the highest caliber who perceive Hashem’s ways with undistorted clarity. They discern Hashem’s hand guiding the world in its constant, miraculous operation and they know with certainty that all is directed by Hashem.—Malbim

for You have never forsaken

those who seek You, Adonoy.²⁷

footnotes: ²⁷ Tehillim 9:11

Adonoy desired,

for the sake of His righteousness,

to make the Torah great and to glorify it.²⁸

footnotes: ²⁸ Yeshaya 42:21

Exalted and sanctified be His great Name

in the world which He created

according to His will;

and may He rule His Kingdom

in your lifetime and in your days,

and in the lifetime

of the entire House of Yisrael,

speedily and in the near future—

and say Amein.

May His great Name be blessed

forever and for all eternity.

Blessed and praised,

glorified, and exalted and uplifted,

honored and elevated and extolled

be the Name of the Holy One, blessed is He;

far above

all the blessings and hymns,

praises and consolations

which we utter in the world—and say Amein.

But as for me,

may my prayer to You, Adonoy,

be at a favorable time;

God, in the abundance of Your kindness,

answer me with the truth of Your deliverance.

And whenever the Ark traveled

Moshe would say: “Rise, Adonoy

and let Your enemies be scattered,

and those who hate You, flee before You.”

For from Tziyon will go forth the Torah,

and the word of Adonoy from Yerushalayim.

Blessed is He Who gave the Torah

to His people Yisrael in His holiness.