Outside Israel, this poem is recited on the first night of the festival only.

וּבְכֵן וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּיְלָה AND so – IT HAPPENED AT MIDNIGHT.

Many were the miracles You performed long ago, at night.

At the beginning of the watch, on this night, You won [Abraham]’s battle, when [his men were] split, and the night IT HAPPENED AT MIDNIGHT.

You judged the king of Gerar in his dream at night. You put dread into [Laban] the Aramean’s heart that night.

And Israel struggled with an angel and overcame him at night IT HAPPENED AT MIDNIGHT.

You crushed the firstborns of Patros [Egypt] in the middle of the night. They could not find their strength, when they rose up [against Israel] at night. You flung [Sisera] the commander of Haroshet off course with the stars of night IT HAPPENED AT MIDNIGHT.

[Sennacherib] the blasphemer thought to raise his hand against the beloved [city]; but You dried up the bodies of his fallen in the night. You overthrew Bel, idol and pedestal together, in the dead of night. To [Daniel] the beloved man were revealed the secrets of that vision of the night IT HAPPENED AT MIDNIGHT.

[Belshazzar], who drank himself merry from the holy vessels, was killed on that same night. [Daniel] was brought out unharmed from the lions’ den; he who had explained those terrors of the night. [Haman] the Agagite bore his hatred and wrote his orders at night IT HAPPENED AT MIDNIGHT.

You awakened Your might against him, disturbing [King Ahashverosh’s] sleep at night. You shall tread the winepress of [Se’ir], who asks anxiously, “What of the night?” You will cry out like the watchman, calling, “Morning is come, and also night” IT HAPPENED AT MIDNIGHT.

Draw near the day that will be neither day nor night. Highest One, make known that day is Yours and also night. Appoint watchmen [to guard] Your city all day long and all night, Light up like daylight the darkness of night IT HAPPENED AT MIDNIGHT.