Our God, and God of our fathers!

I will call with Your Name,

I will strengthen myself to grasp You,

my prayer precedes the morning watch,

I awaken the dawn.

I approach the Ark to speak clear words,

I have prepared my speech with great care

so that my lips may move freely.

Behold, my desire is

that God will give ear and answer me,

but where is the competent petitioner

and who is worthy

to say, “I have cleansed my heart

and my deeds are truthful,

I am free from transgression

and the work of my hands is clean?”

Deal magnanimously with the guilty

and do not exterminate them,

let their prayer be esteemed as an offering

and their supplication as sweet incense.

Raise Your bent ones

that they may lift up their heads,

let no sins be found in them,

neither secret ones or public ones.

Be a stronghold in times of distress

for those who trust in You;

do not banish into exile, the wanderers,

those who stray like sheep,

place into Your bottle, the tears

with which I cause my couch to melt,

let my strength be in You,

My Strength and Refuge.

Rescue them and bring them relief,

release Your bound ones,

they cry to You, they knock at Your door,

they call upon You in distress with prayer,

they have been robbed by thieves,

the wicked have surrounded the righteous.

[Almighty] Master and Judge,

why have You concealed Your Presence?

The shouts of Your adversaries—

those who rise against You—

crush them and destroy them;

for the knowers of Your secrets—¹

footnotes: ¹ The Torah.

may Your kindness be reserved, always.

Please! Return the dispersed

and gather the exiled,

raise up the lowly to the heights,

and bring the dejected up [to Jerusalem].

Let them say among the nations:

“Adonoy has done great things for them,

the desolate has become [a garden of] Eden,

the ruins have become a fortress.”

Save those who trust in You,

those who sought refuge in Your shelter;

regard [the shame of] their oppression,

this must be done by You.

Hear the prayers of the downtrodden,

look at his crushed spirit,

accept his words favorably—

the outpouring of his prayer.

Strengthen the weak, encourage the faint,

grant him relief

for You are the Sculptor of mountains

and the Creator of winds,

and You relate to man, his conversation.

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.”

Adonoy, God of Hosts,

who is like You, a mighty God;

and Your faithfulness is round about You.

My Master, hear our voice;

let Your ears be attentive

to the voice of our supplication.

Unto Adonoy, our God,

is mercy and forgiveness,

though we have been disloyal to Him.

Do not enter into judgement with us,

for no living soul will be justified before You.

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.