Book of Common Prayer
102 (A tefillah of one afflicted; when he is faint, he pours out his si’akh [complaint] before Hashem) Hear my tefillah, Hashem, and let my cry for help come unto Thee.
2 (3) Hide not Thy face from me in the yom tzar (day of distress); incline Thine ear unto me; in the yom when I call, answer me speedily.
3 (4) For my yamim are consumed like ashan (smoke), and my atzmot burn like a furnace.
4 (5) My lev is struck, and withered like esev; so that I forget to eat my lechem.
5 (6) By reason of the voice of my groaning my atzmot have deveykus to my basar.
6 (7) I am like a bird of the midbar; I am like an owl of the desert.
7 (8) I keep watch, and am like a tzippor (bird) alone upon the gag (housetop, roof).
8 (9) Mine oyevim (enemies) reproach me kol hayom; and they that revile me curse by me.
9 (10) For I have eaten ashes like lechem, and mingled my drink with tears.
10 (11) Because of Thine za’am (indignation) and Thy ketsef (wrath, anger); for Thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
11 (12) My days are like a tzel (shadow) that lengtheneth; and I am withered like esev (grass).
12 (13) But Thou, Hashem, shall endure l’olam; and Thy memory unto dor vador.
13 (14) Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Tziyon; for the time to favor her, the mo’ed (set time, appointed time) has come.
14 (15) For Thy avadim cherish her avanim (stones), and pity her aphar.
15 (16) So the Goyim shall fear the Shem Hashem, and all the melachim of ha’aretz will revere Thy glory.
16 (17) When Hashem shall build up Tziyon, He shall appear in His Kavod.
17 (18) He will regard the tefillah of the destitute, and not despise their tefillah.
18 (19) This shall be written for a dor acharon (future generation); and the people which shall be created shall praise Hashem.
19 (20) For He hath looked down from the height of His Kodesh; from Shomayim did Hashem behold Eretz;
20 (21) To hear the groaning of the asir (prisoner); to release those that are bnei temutah (men [appointed to] death);
21 (22) To declare the Shem Hashem in Tziyon, and His tehillah (praise) in Yerushalayim;
22 (23) When the peoples are gathered together in assembly, and the mamlachot (kingdoms), to serve Hashem.
23 (24) He bowed down my ko’ach in the derech; He cut short my yamim.
24 (25) I said, O my G-d, take me not away in the midst of my yamim; Thy years are dor dorim (throughout all generations).
25 (26) Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of ha’aretz; and Shomayim is the ma’aseh (work) of Thy hands.
26 (27) They shall perish, but Thou shalt remain; and all of them shall wear out like a beged (garment); like a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed;
27 (28) But Thou art the same, and Thy shanot (years) shall have no end.
28 (29) The children of Thy avadim shall dwell, and their zera shall be established before Thee.
107 O give thanks unto Hashem, for He is tov; ki l’olam chasdo (for His mercy endureth forever).
2 Let the Geulei Hashem (the redeemed of Hashem) say so, whom He hath redeemed from the yad tzar;
3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the mizrach (east), and from the ma’arav (west), from the tzafon (north), and from the yam (sea).
4 They wandered in the midbar in a desolate region; they found no derech to an ir moshav (inhabited city).
5 Re’evim (hungry) and tzeme’im (thirsty), their nefesh fainted within them.
6 Then they cried unto Hashem in their tzoros, and He delivered them out of their distresses.
7 And He led them forth by the derech yesharah that they might go to an ir moshav.
8 Oh that men would praise Hashem for His chesed, and for His nifla’ot (wonderful works) to the Bnei Adam!
9 For He satisfieth the longing nefesh, and filleth the hungry nefesh with the tov.
10 Such as sit in choshech and in tzalmavet, being bound in oni and barzel (iron);
11 Because they rebelled against the words of G-d, and despised the atzat Elyon (counsel of the Most High);
12 Therefore He brought down their lev with amal (toil); they stumbled, and there was no ozer (helper).
13 Then they cried out unto Hashem in their tzoros, and He saved them out of their distresses.
14 He brought them out of choshech and tzalmavet, and broke apart their chains.
15 Oh that men would praise Hashem for His chesed, and for His nifla’ot (wonderful works) to the Bnei Adam!
16 For He hath broken down the dlatot nechoshet, and cut asunder the bars of barzel (iron).
17 Fools because of their derech peysha, and because of their avonot (iniquities), were afflicted.
18 Their nefesh abhorreth all manner of ochel (food); and they drew near unto the sha’arei mavet (gates of death).
19 Then they cried unto Hashem in their tzoros, and He saveth them out of their distresses.
20 He sent His Davar, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions [See Yn 1:1, 14; Mt 4:23].
21 Oh that men would praise Hashem for His chesed, and for His nifla’ot (wonderful works) to the Bnei Adam!
22 And let them sacrifice the zivkhei todah (sacrifices of thanksgiving), and recount His works with joyful singing.
23 They that go down to the yam in oniyot (ships), that do business on mayim rabbim (great waters);
24 These have seen the ma’asei Hashem, and His nifla’ot (wonders) in the deep.
25 For He commandeth, and raiseth up a ruach sa’arah (stormy wind), which lifteth up the galim (waves) thereof.
26 They [the galim] mount up to Shomayim, they went down again to the tehomot (depths); their nefesh melted in ra’ah (peril, trouble).
27 They reeled and staggered like a shikkor, and were at their wit’s end.
28 Then they cried unto Hashem in their tzoros, and He brought them out of their distresses.
29 He made the sa’arah (storm) a calm, so that the galim (waves) thereof were still [Mk 4:41].
30 Then were they glad because they were quiet; so He brought them unto their makhoz chefetz (desired haven, city, district, boundary).
31 Oh that men would praise Hashem for His chesed, and for His nifla’ot (wonderful works) to the Bnei Adam!
32 Let them exalt Him also in the Kehal Am, and praise Him in the moshav zekenim (council of the elders).
17 For, hinei, I create Shomayim Chadashim and eretz Chadashah; and the rishonot shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, hinei, I create Yerushalayim a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Yerushalayim, and joy in Ami; and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying out.
20 There shall be no more in there an infant of days, nor a zaken (old man) that hath not filled his days; for he that shall die a hundred years old will be regarded a na’ar; but the choteh (sinner), a hundred years old, will be accursed.
21 And they shall build batim (houses), and inhabit them; and they shall plant kramim (vineyards), and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat; for as the days of HaEtz are the days of Ami, and Mine Bechir shall long enjoy the ma’aseh of their hands.
23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for misfortune; for they are the Zera Beruchei Hashem (Seed of the Blessed ones of Hashem), and their offspring with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet medaberim (speaking), I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and aphar shall be the lechem of the nachash. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My Har Kadosh, saith Hashem. [T.N. This last chapter makes a reference to Gehinnom and the just retribution coming.]
17 Let the Zekenim (elders, see SHEMOT 12:21) who have ruled well be considered worthy of double kavod, especially the Zekenim laboring in Messianic hatafah (preaching) and Messianic hora’ah (teaching).
18 For the Kitvei HaKodesh says, LO TACHSOM SHOR BEDISHO ("You shall not muzzle the ox while he is treading out the grain" DEVARIM 25:4), and "Worthy is the workman of his wages."
19 Do not receive an accusation against a Zaken (Elder), unless on the PI SHNI EDIM O AL PI SHLOSHA EDIM ("testimony of two or three witnesses" DEVARIM 19:15).
20 The Zekenim that are sinning, expose before all, that the rest also may have yirat Shomayim.
21 I charge you before Hashem and Moshiach Yehoshua and the malachim habechirim (chosen angels) that these directives you keep without discrimination, doing nothing on the mekor (basis) of masoh panim (partiality).
22 Give s’michah quickly to no one nor participate in the chatta’im (sins) of others; keep yourself tahor.
23 No longer drink only mayim, but use a little yayin because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.
24 With some, their chatta’im are obvious, going before them to mishpat, but with others, some chatta’im indeed follow after them [to the Yom HaDin].
25 Likewise, also ma’asim tovim are borur (obvious), but even when they are not, they cannot be hidden.
28 And one of the Sofrim approached and heard them debating, and seeing that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered them well, asked him, Which mitzvah is rishonah of all the mitzvot?
29 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered, SHEMA YISROEL ADONOI ELOHEINU ADONOI ECHAD is harishonah.
30 VAHAVTA ES ADONOI ELOHECHA BKHOL LVAVCHA UVECHOL NAFSHECHA UVECHOL MODECHA. [DEVARIM 6:4,5]
31 And the shneyah is this, VAHAVTA LREACHA KAMOCHA [VAYIKRA 19:18]. There is not another mitzvah greater than these.
32 And the Baal Torah said to him, Well spoken, Rabbi, beemes you have said that Hashem is ECHAD (one, DEVARIM 6:4), and EIN OD and there is no other [YESHAYAH 45:18] except him. [DEVARIM 4:35,39; YESHAYAH 45:6,14; 46:9]
33 and to have ahavah for him BECHOL LVAVCHA (with all your heart) and with all your binah UVECHOL MODECHA (with all your strength DEVARIM 6:5) and LREACHA KAMOCHA (your neighbor as yourself, VAYIKRA 19:18) is greater [than] all of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. [SHMUEL ALEF 15:22; HOSHEA 6:6; MICHOH 6:6 8]
34 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, when he saw that this Torah teacher answered with chochmah (wisdom), said to him, You are not far from the Malchut Hashem. And no one was daring to put a she’elah (question) in front of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach again.
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