Our God and God of our fathers!

Heed supplication and listen to prayer, cancel anger and diminish fury. The bitter-hearted who pray to You will find help in Your great Name.

Regard the cry of the groaning¹ behold their suffering; do not disdain their bent stature. Charge the insolent enemy for shaming them; trample them and let their blood spurt.

footnotes: ¹ The groaning of the nation of Israel.

You have existed and still do, and will exist in all Your glory. You said the seed of Your loyal ones would exist, yet they are being wasted by the power of Your fury.

They angered You with their sins and were evicted from their desire, they were scattered all over without rest; their spirit wounded, bent to the earth, plowed upon and deeply furrowed.

Sunk in mud with no rescuer, their predators at peace all around, daily their enemy fights; they spread their hands² to get out of trouble.

footnotes: ² To God in prayer.

Their lives are wasted with agony and groans; the weak are many and joy is gone. They hope for salvation and end up crying; they’re wearied by upstarts who undermine them.

They plot slyly to convert them from You, weigh them down to weaken them. They cry to You when exhausted to find respite from their heavy burden.

They express prayer, standing crowded, request pardon with bowed head; oppressors enrage them, seeking their extermination; may they be confounded and annihilated.

Redeem Your followers from total destruction, save them from enemies and elevate them, command the salvation of those who seek You in prayer, justify them in judgment from hidden and open [sins].

Jealous avenger, be jealous for Your Name, cut away the yoke thongs from Your people’s neck. See our suffering and repent from Your anger, fight our battle against the people You damned.

Repay sevenfold those who anguish me, besot Your arrows with the blood of my oppressors. Turn Your ear to the sound of my supplications, accept me when I call out, “Adonoy, Adonoy.”

Almighty! King! Who sits on the throne of mercy, governs with kindness forgives the iniquities of His people. He removes their sins one by one, increasing forgiveness to sinners, and pardon to transgressors. Acting righteously with all who are of flesh and spirit; not according to their wickedness does He repay them. Almighty! You instructed us to recite the thirteen Divine attributes; remember unto us this day the covenant of thirteen Divine attributes, as You made them known to the humble Moses of old, as it is written, “And Adonoy descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Name, Adonoy.

Congregation and Chazzan:

And Adonoy passed before him [Moses], and proclaimed:

Adonoy, Adonoy, Almighty, Merciful, Gracious, Slow to Anger, and Abundant in Kindness, and Truth. Keeper of kindness for thousands of generations, Endurer of iniquity, and transgression, and sin; and Acquitter of those who repent. “And pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your inheritance.”

Pardon us our Father, for we have sinned, forgive us our King, for we have transgressed. “For You, my Master, are good and forgiving, and abounding in kindness to all who call upon You.”

For there is no righteous man on earth who [always] does good and never sins. For the inclination of man’s heart leans to evil from his youth. For You search out our iniquities, and scrutinize our sins. You have set our iniquities before You, the sins of our youth before the light of Your countenance. As for man, his days are as grass; as the flower of the field, so he flourishes. And You, Adonoy, are gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth.

As a father has compassion on his children so do You have compassion on us, Adonoy. Deliverance is Adonoy’s; upon Your people is Your blessing. Selah! Adonoy of Hosts is with us, a stronghold for us is the God of Jacob. Selah! Adonoy of Hosts! fortunate is the man who trusts in You. Adonoy, deliver us; the King will answer us on the day we call.

“Please pardon the sins of this nation in accordance with the greatness of Your lovingkindness; and as You forgave this people from when it left Egypt until now.” And there it is said:

“And Adonoy said, I have pardoned [them] as you have asked.”

Incline Your ear, my God, and hear, open Your eyes and behold our desolate places, and the city which is called by Your Name; for it is not on account of our righteousness that we let fall our supplication before You, but because of Your great mercy. My Master, hear! My Master, pardon! My Master, listen and take action, do not delay! For Your sake, my God, because Your Name is proclaimed over Your city and over Your people.