יַעֲלֶה Let our plea rise from evening, Let our cry come [to You] from morning, and let our song appear by evening.

Let our voice rise from evening, Let our righteousness come [to You] from morning, and let our [plea for] redemption appear by evening.

Let our suffering rise from evening, Let our [plea for] forgiveness come [to You], from morning, and let our groans appear by evening.

Let our refuge [through prayer] rise from evening, Let it, for Your sake, come [to You] from morning, and let our atonement appear by evening.

Let our [plea for] salvation rise from evening, Let our purification come [to You] from morning, and let our pardon appear by evening.

Let remembrance of us rise from evening, Let our gathering for prayer come [to You], from morning, and let our splendor appear by evening.

Let our knocking [at Your gate] rise from evening, Let our joyousness come [to You] from morning, and let our appeal appear by evening.

Let our distressed cries rise from evening, Let them come to You from morning, and let [Your answer] appear to us by evening.

שֹׁמֵֽעַ תְּפִלָּה You who listen to prayer – all creatures of flesh will come to You. All creatures of flesh will come and bow down before You, O LORD. They will come and bow down before You, LORD, and give honor to Your name. Come, let us bow in worship, bend our knees before the LORD our Maker. Come in at His gates with thanksgiving; come to His courts with praise. Thank Him and bless His name. Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who nightly stand in the House of the LORD. Lift up your hands toward the Sanctuary and bless the LORD. Come, let us enter His dwelling, bow before His footstool. Exalt the LORD our God, and bow before His footstool – He is holy. Exalt the LORD our God, and bow at His holy mountain, for holy is the LORD our God. Bow down to the LORD in the splendor of holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth. As for us, in Your great loving-kindness we will come into Your House; we will bow down to Your holy Temple in awe of You. We will bow down to Your holy Temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving-kindness and truth, for You have magnified Your name and Your word above all else. LORD, God of hosts, who is like You – Mighty One, LORD, with Your faithfulness all round You? For who in the heavens may be compared to the LORD; who is like the LORD among the angels? For You are great, and You do wonders, You are God alone. For Your loving-kindness reaches over heaven itself, and Your truth as high as the skies. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised; His greatness cannot be fathomed. For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised; He is awesome beyond all heavenly powers. For the LORD is the great God, the King great above all heavenly powers. Who is the god, in heaven or on earth, who can perform works and mighty acts like Yours? Who would not hold You in awe, King of the nations, for that befits You, for among all the wise people of nations, in all their realms, there is none like You. There is none like You, LORD; You are great, and Your name is great in its might. Your arm is mighty; Your hand holds its power, Your right hand raised. The day is Yours, and Yours is the night; You established light and the sun. In His hands are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks are His. Who can tell of the LORD’s mighty acts and make all His praises heard? Yours, LORD, are the greatness and the power, the glory and the majesty and splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is Yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; You are exalted as Head over all. The heavens are Yours, and Yours is the earth; the world and all that is in it – it is You who founded them. You laid out the boundaries of the earth; summer and winter – it is You who formed them. You shattered the Leviathan’s heads; You turned him into food for desert creatures. You split the channels of spring and stream, You dried up mighty rivers. You shattered the sea with Your might; You broke the sea-monsters’ heads on the water. You rule over the surge of the sea; as its waves swell, it is You who still them. Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of God, on His holy mountain. LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, enthroned above the Cherubim, You are God alone. God who is revered in a company of many holy ones, awesome over all that surrounds Him. The heavens will declare Your wonders, LORD, and Your faithfulness, in the assembly of holy ones. Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us greet Him with thanksgiving, shout aloud to Him in songs of praise. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; kindness and truth come out to greet You. Together we made sweet company; in a great crowd we came to the House of God. The sea is His, He made it; the dry land too, for His hands formed it. In His hand is every living soul, the breath of all mankind. The spirit is Yours, and the body Your creation; spare those You have formed. The spirit is Yours, and the body is Yours; LORD, act for the sake of Your name. We have come because of Your name, LORD; act for the sake of Your name. For the glory of Your name, for Your name is Gracious and Compassionate God. For the sake of Your name, LORD, forgive our iniquity, though it is great.

דַּרְכְּךָ Your way, our God, is to be slow to anger, with both sinners and the righteous – this is Your praise.

לְמַעַנְךָ Act for Your sake, our God, and not for ours – see how we stand before You, inadequate and empty.

תַּעֲלֶה אֲרוּכָה Heal the wound of this driven leaf; relent for the sake of dust and ashes. Cast away our sins and pardon Your handiwork; behold, there is no one worthy among us: act righteously with us.

THE THIRTEEN ATTRIBUTES OF MERCY

אֵל מֶֽלֶךְ God, King who sits upon a throne of compassion, who acts with loving-kindness, who pardons the iniquities of His people, passing them before Him in order; who forgives sinners and pardons transgressors; who performs righteousness with all flesh and spirit, do not repay their bad actions in kind. God, You taught us to speak thirteen attributes: recall for us today the covenant of the thirteen attributes, as You in ancient times showed the humble one [Moses], as is written: The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed in the name of the LORD:

וַיַּעֲבֹר And the LORD passed by before him and proclaimed:

יהוה The LORD, the LORD, compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving-kindness and truth, extending loving-kindness to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion and sin, and absolving [the guilty who repent].

Forgive us our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.

סְלַח לָֽנוּ Forgive us, our Father, for we have sinned. Pardon us, our King, for we have transgressed. For You, LORD, are good and forgiving, abounding in loving-kindness to all who call on You.

הַאֲזִֽינָה Give ear, LORD, to our prayer, and listen to the voice of our pleading. Listen to the sound of our pleading, our King and our God, for it is to You we pray. Let Your ears be intent and Your eyes be open to hear the prayer of Your servants, the people of Israel. And from heaven, the sanctuary of Your dwelling, hear their prayer and their plea, and do justice for them. Forgive Your people who have sinned against You.

כְּרַחֵם As a father has compassion for his children, so, LORD, have compassion for us. Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing rest upon Your people, Selah! The LORD of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our stronghold, Selah! LORD of hosts: happy is the one who trusts in You. LORD, save! May the King answer us on the day we call.

סְלַח־נָא Forgive, please, this people’s iniquity, in the abundance of Your kindness, and as You have forgiven this people from the time of Egypt until now, and there it is said:

And the LORD said, I have forgiven as you asked.

הַטֵּה Give ear, my God and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolation, and the city that bears Your name, for it is not on the strength of our righteousness that we throw down our pleadings before You, but on the strength of Your great compassion. LORD, hear me; LORD, forgive; LORD, listen and act and do not delay – for Your sake, my God; for Your city and Your people bear Your name.

Our God and God of our fathers,

סְלַח נָא Forgive, please, the faults and transgressions of Your nation; at the iniquity of Your children, may Your anger not flare.

Forgive, please, what is repulsive in them, and they will draw life from the wellspring that is with You; the iniquity of Your tribes tolerate, and relent as You have promised.

Forgive, please, those who confess and forsake their folly, as You have written; iniquity and transgression forgive, for the sake of Your name.

Forgive, please, the evil and error of those created to glorify Your name; the iniquity of their sins, cleanse in Your bounteous rain.

Forgive, please, the petty foolishness of the wicked of Your nation; let the iniquity of Your beloved ones be sought and not be there – as You promised.

Forgive, please, the deceit of those who bow and prostrate themselves before You; the iniquity of Your chosen ones, atone with the good of Your discernment.

Forgive, please, the rebellion of those who seek You and proclaim Your unity in Your world; the iniquity of the dispersed erase, and rebuild Your Temple.

Forgive, please, their perversity and shelter them under Your canopy of peace; the iniquity of Your servants overlook, and tread it down into Your hiddenness.

Forgive, please, lest they be punished from Your lofty realm; let the iniquity of Your flock be forgotten, for this is Your praise and exaltation.

Forgive, please, their shameful acts, take pity on them from Your lofty realm; the iniquity of those You love, forgive; let them not become ensnared in Your nets.

Forgive, please, the stain of the abominable straying of Your beloved ones; let the iniquity of Your pure ones pass, in the greatness of Your compassion.

אֵל מֶֽלֶךְ God, King who sits upon a throne of compassion, who acts with loving-kindness, who pardons the iniquities of His people, passing them before Him in order; who forgives sinners and pardons transgressors; who performs righteousness with all flesh and spirit, do not repay their bad actions in kind. God, You taught us to speak thirteen attributes: recall for us today the covenant of the thirteen attributes, as You in ancient times showed the humble one [Moses], as is written: The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed in the name of the LORD:

And the LORD passed by before him and proclaimed:

יהוה The LORD, the LORD, compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving-kindness and truth, extending loving-kindness to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion and sin, and absolving [the guilty who repent].

Forgive us our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.

סְלַח לָֽנוּ Forgive us, our Father, for we have sinned. Pardon us, our King, for we have transgressed. For You, LORD, are good and forgiving, abounding in loving-kindness to all who call on You.

אַל תָּבוֹא Do not come into judgment with us, for no living being can vindicate itself before You. What can we say in Your presence, LORD our God? What can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? Our God, we are humiliated by our actions, ashamed of our sins. Our God, we are too humiliated and ashamed to raise our faces to You, our God. We know we have sinned and that there is no one to stand up for us. Let Your great name stand up for us in time of trouble.

כְּרַחֵם As a father has compassion for his children, so, LORD, have compassion for us. Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing rest upon Your people, Selah! The LORD of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our stronghold, Selah! LORD of hosts: happy is the one who trusts in You. LORD, save! May the King answer us on the day we call.

Forgive, please, this people’s iniquity, in the abundance of Your kindness, and as You have forgiven this people from the time of Egypt until now, and there it is said:

And the LORD said, I have forgiven as you asked.

הַטֵּה Give ear, my God and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolation, and the city that bears Your name, for it is not on the strength of our righteousness that we throw down our pleadings before You, but on the strength of Your great compassion. LORD, hear me; LORD, forgive; LORD, listen and act and do not delay – for Your sake, my God; for Your city and Your people bear Your name.

Day by day / they seek / You; the good Stronghold – / may the mighty strength / of Your speech be in saying: “I have forgiven.”

Our God and God of our fathers,

אָמְנָם כֵּן It is surely true / that our impulse controls / us; You alone can clear us, / abundantly righteous One, / answer us: “I have forgiven.”

Despise the informer/ and invalidate / his indictment; let our Beloved roar out, / and give voice / to His word: “I have forgiven.”

Silence the Accuser / and let the Defender / take his place, and let the LORD be his support, / so that He may / say: “I have forgiven.”

Let the merits of [Abraham] the Easterner / blossom also / for [the nation called] the lily; remove all sin / and raise Your voice / from Your dwelling place: “I have forgiven.”

Beneficent and forgiving One, / pardon and forgive / our faults; O LORD, listen / and respond / from on high: “I have forgiven.”

Heal my pain, / and into the depths submerge / my iniquity; praise shall be Yours / when You speak these words / for my sake: “I have forgiven.”

Wipe away the transgressions / and wickedness / of the children of Your covenant; apply Your loving-kindness / and place Your glory / upon the remnant:“ I have forgiven.”

Hear the stirrings of my heart, / and my whispered prayer / accept. Forgiver of sins, / act for Your own sake / and speak: “I have forgiven.”

Turn to our shame, / let it take the place / of iniquity; remove the stench [of sin] / and bring tidings / to all who seek shelter in You:“ I have forgiven.”

Hear my voice / and see the tears / in my eye; plead my cause, / heed my words / and answer me: “I have forgiven.”

Wipe out our transgressions / like a passing cloud, swiftly, / as it is said, wipe away the transgression / of Your delivered people / and say: “I have forgiven.”

אֵל מֶֽלֶךְ God, King who sits upon a throne of compassion, who acts with loving-kindness, who pardons the iniquities of His people, passing them before Him in order; who forgives sinners and pardons transgressors; who performs righteousness with all flesh and spirit, do not repay their bad actions in kind. God, You taught us to speak thirteen attributes: recall for us today the covenant of the thirteen attributes, as You in ancient times showed the humble one [Moses], as is written: The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed in the name of the LORD:

And the LORD passed by before him and proclaimed:

יהוה The LORD, the LORD, compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving-kindness and truth, extending loving-kindness to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion and sin, and absolving [the guilty who repent]. Forgive us our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.

סְלַח לָֽנוּ Forgive us, our Father, for we have sinned. Pardon us, our King, for we have transgressed. For You, LORD, are good and forgiving, abounding in loving-kindness to all who call on You.

כִּי הִנֵּה Like clay in the potter’s hands – expanded or contracted at will – so are we in Your hand, Guardian of loving-kindness; look to the covenant, and disregard our inclination.

Like a stone in the stonecutter’s hands – held fast or smashed at will – so are we in Your hand, Source of life and death; look to the covenant, and disregard our inclination.

Like an ax-head in the blacksmith’s hands – held to the flame or distanced from it at will – so are we in Your hand, Supporter of the poor and destitute; look to the covenant, and disregard our inclination.

Like the helm in the sea captain’s hands – held fast or released at will – so are we in Your hand, beneficent and forgiving God; look to the covenant, and disregard our inclination.

Like glass in the glassblower’s hands – shaped or dissolved at will – so are we in Your hand, Forgiver of willful and inadvertent sins; look to the covenant, and disregard our inclination.

Like cloth in the weaver’s hands – straightened or twisted at will – so are we in Your hand, jealous and avenging God; look to the covenant, and disregard our inclination.

Like silver in the silversmith’s hands – adulterated or purified at will – so are we in Your hand, Provider of healing to the sick; look to the covenant, and disregard our inclination.

אֵל מֶֽלֶךְ God, King who sits upon a throne of compassion, who acts with loving-kindness, who pardons the iniquities of His people, passing them before Him in order; who forgives sinners and pardons transgressors; who performs righteousness with all flesh and spirit, do not repay their bad actions in kind. God, You taught us to speak thirteen attributes: recall for us today the covenant of the thirteen attributes, as You in ancient times showed the humble one [Moses], as is written: The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed in the name of the LORD:

And the LORD passed by before him and proclaimed:

יהוה The LORD, the LORD, compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving-kindness and truth, extending loving-kindness to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion and sin, and absolving [the guilty who repent]. Forgive us our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.

סְלַח לָֽנוּ Forgive us, our Father, for we have sinned. Pardon us, our King, for we have transgressed. For You, LORD, are good and forgiving, abounding in loving-kindness to all who call on You.

זְכֹר Remember, LORD, Your compassion and loving-kindness, for they are everlasting. Do not hold against us the sins of those who came before us. May Your mercies meet us swiftly, for we have been brought very low. Remember us, LORD, in favoring Your people; redeem us with Your salvation.

זְכֹר Remember Your congregation, the one that You acquired long ago, the tribe of Your inheritance that You redeemed, this Mount Zion that You have dwelt in.

זְכֹר Remember, LORD, the fondness of Jerusalem; do not forever forget the love of Zion. You shall rise up and have compassion for Zion, for now it is right to be gracious, for the time has come.

זְכֹר Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said, “Tear it down, tear it down to its very foundations!”

זְכֹר Remember Abraham, Isaac and Yisrael, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own Self, when You said to them, “I shall make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I shall give all this land that I spoke of to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.”

זְכֹר Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; do not attend to the stubbornness of this people, to their wickedness or sinfulness.

אַל־נָא Please, do not hold against us the sin that we committed so foolishly, that we have sinned. We have sinned, our Rock; forgive us, our Creator.

He transforms willful sin into error, for the nation acted without knowing what they did.

We have sinned, our Rock; forgive us, our Creator.

זְכָר Remember the covenant of our fathers, as You have said, “I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham I will remember, and the land I will remember.”

Remember the covenant of the early ones, as You have said, “I shall remember for them the covenant of the early ones, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, in order to be their God: I am the LORD.”

Deal kindly with us as You have promised, “Even so, when they are in the land of their enemies I shall not reject them and shall not detest them to the point of destruction, to the point of breaking My covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.”

Have compassion for us and do not destroy us, as it is written: “For the LORD your God is a compassionate God; He will not forsake you, He will not destroy you, and He will not forget the covenant of your fathers, that He pledged to them.”

Circumcise our hearts to love Your name, as it is written: “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you shall live.”

Restore our fortunes and have compassion for us, as it is written: “And the LORD your God shall restore your fortunes and have compassion for you, and shall return and gather you in from all the nations among whom the LORD your God has scattered you.”

Gather those of us who have been distanced, as is written, “If your distanced ones are at the very ends of the heavens, from there shall the LORD your God gather you; from there shall He bring you.”

Let us find You when we seek You, as it is written: “And if from there you seek the LORD your God, you shall find Him, when you seek Him out with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Wipe out our transgressions for Your sake, as You have said: “I, I am the One who shall wipe out your transgressions for My sake, and I shall not recall your sins.”

Wipe out our transgressions as if they were a cloud, as if they were a haze, as is written, “I have wiped out your transgressions like a cloud, and as a haze your sins; come back to Me for I have redeemed you.”

Whiten our sins as snow and as wool, as is written, “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: If your sins are like scarlet, they shall be whitened like snow; should they be as red as crimson, they shall become like wool.”

Throw over us pure waters and purify us, as is written, “I shall throw pure waters over you and you shall be pure. I shall purify you of all your impurities and of all your idolatry.”

Atone our sins on this day and purify us, as it is written, “For on this day you will be atoned and made pure; of all your sins before the LORD you shall be purified.”

Bring us to Your holy mountain, and let us rejoice in Your House of prayer, as is written, “I shall bring them to My holy mountain, and I shall make them rejoice in My House of prayer; their offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted, desired on My altar, for My House will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

שְׁמַע קוֹלֵֽנוּ Listen to our voice, LORD our God. Spare us and have compassion on us, and in compassion and favor accept our prayer.

Turn us back, O LORD, to You, and we will return. Renew our days as of old.

Do not cast us away from You, and do not take Your holy spirit from us.

Do not cast us away in our old age; when our strength is gone do not desert us.

Do not desert us, LORD; our God, do not be distant from us. Give us a sign of good things, and those who hate us shall see it and be ashamed, for You, LORD, will help us and console us. Hear our speech, LORD, consider our thoughts. May the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts find favor before You, LORD, our Rock and Redeemer. For it is You, LORD, that we have longed for; You shall answer us, LORD our God.

אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ Our God and God of our ancestors, do not abandon us and do not desert us, do not shame us and do not abandon Your covenant with us; bring us close to Your Torah, teach us Your commandments, show us Your ways, and turn our hearts toward the awe of Your name. Circumcise our hearts to love You, so that we return to You in truth, wholeheartedly. For the sake of Your great name, pardon and forgive our iniquities, as it is written in Your holy Writings: “For the sake of Your name, LORD, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.”

Our God and God of our ancestors, forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement.

כִּי אָֽנוּ For we are Your people and You are our God; we are Your children and You are our Father; we are Your servants and You are our Master; we are Your gathering and You are our Place; we are Your legacy and You are our Land; we are Your flock and You are our Shepherd; we are Your vineyard and You are our Keeper; we are Your work and You are our Maker; we are Your bride and You are our Lover; we are Your treasure and You are our God; we are Your people and You are our King; we give You our word and You give us Yours.

We are brazen and You are compassionate, gracious. We are stubborn and You are long forbearing. We are as full of iniquity as You are full of compassion. Our days are like a fleeting shadow. But You are here, and Your years will not end.