Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Siddur Part 7 Nishmath kol Hhai

It is customary to add this on Shabbath:

The soul of all life will appreciate the idea of You,
Sacred One our God.
The spirit of all flesh will proclaim You glorious,
and Your remembrance will always be of highest esteem, our Ruler.
Through the generations forever eternally,
You are God and besides You there is no God;
and in all times of distress and anguish we have no Ruler,
Redeemer, or Savior, but You.
Liberator and Rescuer, Sustainer and Merciful One,
God of all creatures;
Master of all generations is the One who is extolled in praises,
Who guides the World with kindness
and the creatures with much compassion.
And the Sacred One, our one true God,
neither slumbers nor sleeps;
the One who rouses the sleepers and awakens the drowsy,
supporting the fallen, and healing the sick, and releasing the bound,
and to You, we give our thanks.
If our mouth were filled with poetry as the sea,
and our tongue with joyous song as the roaring waves;
Our lips with praise as the expanse of the heavens,
and our eyes as brilliant as the sun and the moon,
Our hands spread forth like the eagles of the sky,
and our feet as swift as the deer -
still we could not fully thank You Sacred One our God,
or appreciate the idea of You our Ruler.
For even one of the thousand thousands of thousands
and myriad myriads of myriads of favors,
that You performed for us and for our ancestors in days gone by:
You redeemed us from Misrayim Sacred One our God,
and liberated us from the institution of slavery,
You nourished us in famine,
and sustained us in plenty, and saved us from the sword,
and let us escape from plague,
and spared us from severe and persistent diseases;
Your mercy has helped us all along Sacred One our God,
and Your kindness has not forsaken us.
Therefore the organs that You implanted within us,
and the spirit and soul that You breathed into our nostrils,
and the tongue that You placed in our mouth -
all of them will thank and appreciate the idea of You
Sacred One our God, for Your great miraculous wonder.
For every mouth will give thanks to You
and every tongue give You praise,
every eye will look to You; and every knee will bend,
every straight spine will prostrate to You,
and every heart will fear,
and our innermost depths will sing praises to the idea of You,
As it is said, “All my limbs will say,
‘Who is similar to You, Sacred One?’,
You rescue the poor from one who is stronger;
the poor and needy from one who robs.”
And it is said, “Sing joyfully of the Sacred One, righteous ones;
for praise is fitting for the upright.”
You will be highly esteemed by the mouth of the upright,
appreciated by the words of the righteous,
the tongue of all the pious express Your sanctity,
and amidst the sacred will you be lauded,
Sacred One our God, the idea of You will be glorified
in the assemblies of the myriads of Your people,
the entire House of Yisrael,
for this is the duty of all creatures towards You,
Sacred One our God,
to thank and laud, to praise and declare glorious,
to exalt and proclaim great,
and to adore beyond all the poetry and songs and praises
of Dawid son of Yishai Your servant, Your anointed.

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