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ידיד נפש אב הרחמן

Sefaria Community Translation

My soul's beloved, merciful father,

משוך עבדך אל רצונך

Sefaria Community Translation

Draw your surrendered to your will rendered.

ירוץ עבדך כמו איָל

Sefaria Community Translation

Your surrendered will run like a gazelle,

ישתחוה מול הדרך

Sefaria Community Translation

He will bow before your splendor.

כי יערב לו ידידותך

Sefaria Community Translation

For to him, your love is sweeter,

מנופת צוף וכל טעם.

Sefaria Community Translation

Than the dripping honeycomb, and any taste at all.

הדור נאה זיו העולם

Sefaria Community Translation

Resplendent, beautiful, radiance of the world,

נפשי חולת אהבתך

Sefaria Community Translation

My soul is sick for your amore,

אנא אל נא, רפא נא לה

Sefaria Community Translation

Please, O God, heal her now,

בהראות לה נועם זיוך

Sefaria Community Translation

By the beauty of your radiance, by showing her.

אז תתחזק ותתרפא

Sefaria Community Translation

Then she will be strong, she will be healed,

והיתה לָךְ שפחת עולם.

Sefaria Community Translation

And she will be your handmaiden forever more.

ותיק יהמו נא רחמיך

Sefaria Community Translation

Ancient one, rouse, please, your mercy.

וחוס נא על בן אוהבך

Sefaria Community Translation

Please have pity on the son of your beloved,

כי זה כמה נכסוף נכסף

Sefaria Community Translation

For so much has this yearning been,

לראות בתפארת עוזך

Sefaria Community Translation

To see your strength, in its beauty,

אנא אלי מחמד ליבי

Sefaria Community Translation

Please, my god, the love of my heart,

חושה נא ואל תתעלם.

Sefaria Community Translation

Hurry, please, and do not hide yourself.

הגלה נא ופרוס חביב

Sefaria Community Translation

Please, be revealed and spread the covering, beloved,

עלי את סוכת שלומך

Sefaria Community Translation

Upon me, the shelter of your tranquility

תאיר ארץ מכבודך

Sefaria Community Translation

Illuminate the earth with your nobility

נגילה ונשמחה בך

Sefaria Community Translation

We will rejoice in you, we will be in festivity

מהר אהוב כי בא מועד

Sefaria Community Translation

Hurry, beloved, for the time has come,

וחנני כימי עולם.

Sefaria Community Translation

And be good to me, like days long ago.