Our God, and God of our fathers!

There is no God besides You, Your dominion is over all generations, and Your covenant endures forever. Your right hand knows no restraint, the power of Your hand is unlimited, Almighty, Who answers in distress.

Mighty are Your wonders, and the power of Your kingdom is forever, and Your years are unending. Avenger of [our] blood, You have saved us many times, and humbled mighty kings.

Behold, You have not changed, You are now what You have always been, the sons of Jacob, You have not consumed. As we are their descendants, why are we forsaken forever, and forgotten as dead men, from the heart?

We are scattered in every corner, enslaved in every country, and no favor is shown us. We are obscured among every people, and put to shame and disgrace among the nations of the world.

We are sunk in the lowest depths, we have collapsed and there is none to raise us, to You alone do we cry. We sit [disgraced] as false witnesses, ashamed to lift our heads, and are drunk with gall and wormwood.

We stumble at noon and at night, like the blind, we grope in the darkness, and know not the time of our redemption. Even those purchased for money, can be freed, but we are wearied day and night and find no rest.

How can I endure in the thick slime,¹ and what is my end that I should be patient until the time You bring me to freedom? In the morning we say: “Would it were evening,” and in the evening: “Would that the morning² draw near,” because of fear of heart and soul.

footnotes: ¹ Of Exile. ² Yesterday’s morning; see Rashi to Deut. 28:67.

We are likened to sheep gone astray, whoever finds us, consumes us, and takes no pity on our souls. I lifted my eyes around me and looked left and right, but I found no one who knows me.³

footnotes: ³ Who cares for me.

I turned to every side but there was no help, I cried to You and called— Almighty, Who answers in time of trouble. O Rock, Your hand is not shortened,⁴ Yours is the power and strength, why do You sleep—rouse Yourself.

footnotes: ⁴ I.e., limited.

Listen to our words of supplication, behold our feebled state, and do not rebuke us with Your anger. Look on the humiliation of our generation, regard our heavy grief and do not chastise us with Your rage.

Turn to our cry from Your Dwelling, look on the groans of Your children, and turn us not away empty-handed from Your Presence. We seek You with entreaty and prayer, O God, favor us in this hour, and hear Adonoy, our supplication.

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.”

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.