Our God and God of our fathers!

Master, if You judge scrupulously,

examining actions meticulously,

no man will be found righteous before You.

You find fault with the hosts of Heaven,

faulting even Your angels—

certainly one¹ who drinks wrong like water.

footnotes: ¹ Man.

Neither merit nor justice are in us,

we are totally sinful.

Good One,

enter not into judgement with us.

Let Your innards churn for us,

in Your abundant mercy turn to us,

Not to do as our evil deeds deserve.

Our willful acts are too many to count.

There are no sweet savored offerings

to provide pardon for our iniquities.

On our righteousness

we do not rely;

we are sullied with iniquity and sin.

To find charity we come in prayer.

Do not measure our ways strictly;

maggots and worms are our end,

vanity and emptiness our [lives] years.

Repent the evil, change Your mind.

That is Your way, merciful one;

with Your great mercies, have mercy on us.

Your ways You instructed

the humble one² to teach,

footnotes: ² Moses is referred to as the humble one.

You informed him of the thirteen in sequence,

assured him they are never ineffective.

Our supplication

we have arranged accordingly before You.

Hear the cries of Your supplicants

and do not send us away empty-handed

from Your Presence.

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.”