Book of Common Prayer
106 Praise Hashem! O give thanks unto Hashem; for He is tov; for His chesed endureth l’olam.
2 Who can speak of the gevurot (mighty acts) of Hashem? Who can show forth all His tehillah (praise)?
3 Ashrei (happy, blessed) are they who are shomrei mishpat, and he that doeth tzedakah at all times.
4 Remember me, Hashem, with the favor that Thou bearest unto Thy people; O visit me with Thy Yeshuah (salvation);
5 That I may see the good of Bechireicha (Thy chosen ones), that I may rejoice in the simchah of Thy nation, that I may glory with Thine nachalah (the people of Thy inheritance).
6 We have sinned with Avoteinu, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
7 Avoteinu had no seichal concerning Thy nifla’ot (wonders) in Mitzrayim; they remembered not the multitude of Thy mercies but provoked Him at the yam, even at the Yam Suf.
8 Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of Shmo, that He might make His gevu’rot (mighty power) to be known.
9 He rebuked the Yam Suf also, and it dried up; so He led them through the tehomot, as through the midbar.
10 And He saved them from the yad of him that hated them, and He acted to make the go’el redemption from the yad of the oyev (enemy).
11 And the mayim covered their enemies; there was not echad (one) of them left surviving.
12 Then believed they in His Devarim; they sang His tehillah.
13 Then they hurried, they forgot His ma’asim; they waited not for His etzah (counsel, advice, wisdom);
14 But lusted exceedingly in the midbar, and tempted G-d in the desert.
15 And He gave them their she’elah (request); but sent leanness into their nefesh.
16 They envied Moshe also in the machaneh, and Aharon the kadosh Hashem (Aaron the holy one of Hashem).
17 Eretz opened and swallowed up Datan and covered over the Adat Aviram (the company of Aviram).
18 And an eish was kindled in their edah (assembly); the flame burned up the resha’im.
19 They made an egel (a calf) in Chorev, and worshiped a massekhah (molden image).
20 Thus they exchanged their kavod for a tavnit shor (likeness of an ox) that eateth esev (grass).
21 They forgot G-d their Moshi’a, Who had done gedolot in Mitzrayim;
22 Nifla’ot (wondrous works) in Eretz Cham, and nora’ot (awesome things) by the Yam Suf.
23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moshe His bechir (chosen one) stood before Him in the peretz (breach), to turn away His wrath, lest He should destroy them.
24 Then they despised the eretz chemdah (desirable land); they believed not His Devar;
25 But murmured in their ohalim, and paid heed not unto the kol (voice) of Hashem.
26 Therefore [in oath] He lifted up His yad against them, that He would overthrow them in the midbar;
27 To make their zera fall also among the Goyim, and to scatter them among the aratzot (lands).
28 They joined themselves also unto Ba’al-Pe’or, and ate the zivkhei mesim (sacrifices offered to the dead).
29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their inventions; and the magefah (plague) broke out among them.
30 Then stood up Pinchas, and interposed; and so the magefah (plague) was halted.
31 And that was counted unto him for tzedakah l’dor vador ad olam.
32 They angered Him also at the waters of Merivah, so that it went ill with Moshe on their account;
33 Because they provoked His Ruach [Hakodesh] and he [Moshe] spoke unadvisedly with his sfatayim (lips).
34 They did not destroy the amim (peoples), as Hashem commanded them;
35 But they mingled with the Goyim, and learned their ma’asim (works, customs).
36 And they served their atzabim (idols); which were a mokesh (snare) unto them.
37 And, they sacrificed their banim and their banot unto shedim (demons),
38 And they shed dahm naki (innocent blood), even the dahm of their banim and of their banot, whom they sacrificed unto the atzabei Kena’an (idols of Canaan); and HaAretz was polluted with blood-guilt.
39 Thus they made themselves tameh with their own ma’asim, and went awhoring with their own inventions.
40 Therefore was the wrath of Hashem kindled against His people, insomuch that He abhorred His own nachalah.
41 And He gave them into the yad Goyim; and they that hated them ruled over them.
42 Their oyevim also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their yad.
43 Many times did He deliver them; but they provoked Him with their etzah (counsel), and so perished in their avon (iniquity).
44 Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, when He heard their rinnah (cry of grief);
45 And He remembered for their sake His Brit, and relented according to the multitude of His chasadim (lovingkindnesses).
46 He made them also to be pitied with rachamim by all those that carried them away as captives.
47 Hoshieini (save us), Hashem Eloheinu, and gather us from among the Goyim, to give thanks unto Thy Shem Kadosh, and to glory in Thy tehillah (praise).
48 Baruch Hashem Elohei Yisroel min haOlam v’ad haOlam; and let kol HaAm say, Omein. Praise Hashem!
24 Then Dovid came to Machanayim. And Avshalom passed over Yarden, he and all the Ish Yisroel with him.
25 And Avshalom appointed Amasa over the tzava (army) instead of Yoav; now Amasa was ben ish shmo Yitra a Yisroeli, that went in to Avigal Bat Nachash Achot Tzeruyah Em Yoav.
26 So Yisroel and Avshalom encamped in Eretz Gil‘ad.
27 And it came to pass, when Dovid was come to Machanayim, that Shovi Ben Nachash of Rabbah of the Bnei Ammon, and Machir Ben Ammiel of Lo-Devar, and Barzillai the Gileadi of Roglim,
28 Brought mishkav (bedding) and sappot (bowls) and earthen vessels, and chittim (wheat), and se’orim (barley), and kemakh (flour), and roasted grain, and pol (beans), and adashim (lentils), and roasted seeds,
29 And devash, and khemah (curds), and tzon, and cheeses of the herd, for Dovid, and for HaAm that were with him, to eat; for they said, HaAm are hungry, and weary, and tzameh (thirsty), in the midbar.
18 And Dovid mustered HaAm that were with him, and set sarei alafim, and sarei me’ot over them.
2 And Dovid sent forth a third part of the people under the yad Yoav, and a third part under the yad Avishai Ben Tzeruyah (Yoav’s brother), and a third part under the yad Ittai the Gitti. And HaMelech said unto HaAm, I will surely go forth with you myself also.
3 But HaAm answered, Thou shalt not go forth; for if we flee away, they will not set their lev on us; neither if half of us die, will they set their lev on us; but now thou art worth ten thousand of us; therefore, now it is better that thou support us from the Ir [i.e., Machanayim].
4 And HaMelech said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And HaMelech stood by the side of the sha’ar, and kol haAm came out by hundreds and by thousands.
5 And HaMelech commanded Yoav and Avishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the na’ar, even with Avshalom. And kol HaAm heard when HaMelech gave all the sarim charge concerning Avshalom.
6 HaAm went into the sadeh against Yisroel; the milchamah was in ya’ar (forest) of Ephrayim;
7 Where Am Yisroel were slain before the avadim of Dovid, and there was there a magefah gedolah that day of esrim elef.
8 For the milchamah was there scattered over the face of kol ha’aretz; and the ya’ar devoured more people that day than the cherev devoured.
30 And on the next day, desiring to know something definite about why Rav Sha’ul was accused by the Yehudim, the tribune released him and ordered the Rashei Hakohanim and all the Sanhedrin to be assembled. Then, having brought down Rav Sha’ul, the tribune had him set before them.
23 And as he gazed at the Sanhedrin, Rav Sha’ul said, “Anashim, Achim, I have lived before Hashem until this day with a lev tahor.”
2 And the Kohen Gadol Chananyah ordered the ones standing by Rav Sha’ul to strike his mouth.
3 Then Rav Sha’ul said to him, “Hashem is about to strike you, you white-washed wall! You sit judging me according to Torah and yet in violation of the Torah you command me to be struck?” [Lv 19:15; Dt 25:1,2]
4 And the ones standing by said, “Do you revile the Kohen Gadol of Hashem?”
5 And Rav Sha’ul said, “I was without da’as, Achim, that he is the Kohen Gadol, for it has been written, NASI V’AMMECHA LO TA’OR (“A ruler of your people you will not speak evil of, curse,” Ex 22:27(28)
6 And Rav Sha’ul, having da’as that one kat is of Tzedukim (Sadducees) and the other of Perushim (Pharisees), was crying out in the Sanhedrin, “Anashim, Achim, I am a Parush ben Parush and it is for the tikvah of the Techiyas HaMesim that I am being judged.”
7 Now when Rav Sha’ul said this, there came about a machlochet (controversy) between the Perushim and Tzedukim, and the multitude was divided.
8 Loit (according to) the Tzedukim, there is no Techiyas HaMesim nor a malach nor ruchot, but Perushim acknowledge all these things.
9 And there was a kol gadol and some of the Sofrim of the kat of the Perushim were arguing vigorously, saying, “Nothing rah do we find keneged this ish, and what if a ruach did speak to him or a malach?”
10 And fearing much more machloket was coming, the Roman tribune ordered the troops to go down to take Rav Sha’ul away from the midst of them and to bring him into the barracks lest he be torn to pieces by them.
11 And on the following lailah, HaAdon stood by Rav Sha’ul and said, “Chazak! For as you gave solemn edut about me in Yerushalayim, thus it is necessary for you also to bear solemn eidus in Rome.”
12 And on the next day, when they came from Beit-Anyah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was hungry.
13 And having seen in the distance an etz te’enah (fig tree) in leaf, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach approached it to see whether he might find pri (fruit) on it. But when he came to it, he found nothing except leaves. For it was not the te’enim season.
14 And in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to it, May no one ever be nourished from pri from you again! And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach’s talmidim were listening.
15 Then they came to Yerushalayim. And having entered the Beis HaMikdash, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to drive out the ones buying and selling in the Beis HaMikdash, and he overturned the shulchanot (tables) of the machalifei hakesafim (money changers) and the chairs of the ones selling the yonim (doves).
16 And he was not allowing anyone to carry things through the Beis HaMikdash.
17 And he was teaching Torah and he was saying to them, Has it not been written, BEITI BEIT TEFILLAH YIKAREI LKHOL HAAMMIM (My House shall be called a House of Prayer [for] all peoples), but you have made it a MEARAT PARITZIM (den of robbers). [YESHAYAH 56:7; YIRMEYAH 7:11]
18 And the Rashei Hakohanim (the Chief Priests) and the Sofrim (Scribes) heard this, and they were seeking how they might destroy him, for they were afraid of him, for all the multitude were amazed at his torah (teaching).
19 And when it became late, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and his talmidim went out of the city.
20 And in the boker (morning), early, as they passed by, they saw the etz teenah (fig tree) having been withered from [the] roots.
21 And, having remembered, Shimon Kefa says to him, Rebbe, look, the etz teenah (fig tree) which you cursed has been withered.
22 And in reply Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Have emunah in Hashem.
23 Omein, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be lifted up and be thrown into the sea, and does not waver in his lev (heart) but has emunah that what he says happens, so it will be for him.
24 For this reason, I say to you, everything for which you daven (pray), everything you request in tefillos (prayers), have emunah (faith) that you have received it, and so it will be for you.
25 And when you stand davening, grant selicha (forgiveness) if something you hold against someone, in order that your Avinu shbaShomayim may grant you selicha for your peyshaim (transgressions).
26 [But if you do not give mechila (forgiveness) neither will your chattaim receive selicha (forgiveness) from your Av shbaShomayim.]
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