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).
20 But the isha of Shimshon was given to his companion, who had been his best man (i.e., his Shoshvin. See Yochanan 3:29 OJBC).
15 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of katzir chittim, that Shimshon visited his isha with a young goat; and he said, I will go in to my isha into the cheder. But her av would not allow him to go in.
2 And her av said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion; is not her younger achot fairer than she? Take her now, instead of her.
3 And Shimshon said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Pelishtim, though I do them ra’ah.
4 And Shimshon went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned them tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between two tails.
5 And when he lit eish to the torches, he let them go into the standing grain of the Pelishtim, and burned up both the harvested grain and also the standing grain, and also olive orchards.
6 Then the Pelishtim said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Shimshon, the choson of the Timni, because he had taken his isha, and given her to his companion. And the Pelishtim came up, and burned her and her av with eish.
7 And Shimshon said unto them, Since ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you and after that I will cease.
8 And he struck them hip and thigh with a makkah gedolah; and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
9 Then the Pelishtim went up and encamped in Yehudah, and spread themselves out in Lechi.
10 And the ish Yehudah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Shimshon are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
11 Then three thousand men of Yehudah went to the top of the rock Etam and said to Shimshon, Knowest thou not that the Pelishtim are rulers over us? What is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the yad Pelishtim. And Shimshon said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
13 And they spoke unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their yad; but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two avotim chadashim (new ropes), and brought him up from the rock.
14 And when he came unto Lechi, the Pelishtim shouted against him; and the Ruach of Hashem came mightily upon him, and the avotim that were upon his arms became as flax that was burned with eish, and his binding loosed from off his hands.
15 And he found a new jawbone of a chamor, and put forth his yad and took it and slaughtered a thousand men therewith.
16 And Shimshon said, With the lechi (jawbone) of a chamor heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of a chamor have I slain a thousand men.
17 And it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking that he cast away the jawbone out of his yad, and called that place Ramat Lechi (Jawbone Hill).
18 And he was very thirsty, and called on Hashem, and said, Thou hast given this teshu’ah hagedolah (great victory, rescue, salvation) into the yad of thy eved; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the yad of the arelim?
19 But Elohim split open the hollow place that is at Lechi, and there came mayim thereout; and when he had drunk, his ruach came again, and he revived; wherefore he called the shem thereof En HaKorei (Spring of the Caller), which is in Lechi unto this day.
20 And he judged Yisroel in the days of the Pelishtim esrim shanah.
17 "Now as the time of the havtachah (promise) was drawing near, which Hashem promised to Avraham Avinu, the people grew and were multiplied in Mitzrayim [Ex 1:7; Ps 105:24]
18 "Until over Mitzrayim there appeared a MELECH CHADASH ASHER LO YADA ES YOSEF ("a new king who knew not Yosef"). [Ex 1:7,8]
19 "This king exploited by his shrewdness our nation and mistreated Avoteinu so as to make their ollelim (infants) exposed in order not to keep them alive. [Ex 1:10-22]
20 "And at this time Moshe Rabbenu was born and he was well pleasing to Hashem; and he was nurtured for shloshah chodashim in the bais of his abba. [Ex 2:2]
21 "And after he had been exposed, the bat Pharaoh took Moshe Rabbeinu away, and brought him up as her own son.[Ex 2:3-10]
22 "And Moshe Rabbenu was instructed in all the chochmah of the Egyptians and in dvarim (words) and pe’ulot (deeds) he was given ko’ach. [1Kgs 4:30; Isa 19:11]
23 "But when arba’im shanah of his days were completed, it entered into his lev (heart) to visit his Achim of the Bnei Yisroel. [Ex 2:11]
24 "And having seen one of them being treated unjustly he retaliated and brought yashrus (justice) for the one being oppressed by striking down the Egyptian. [Ex 2:12]
25 "Now he was assuming that his achim had binah that Hashem by the hand of Moshe was giving Yeshu’at Eloheinu to them, but they did not have binah (understanding).
26 "And on the next day he came to them as they were fighting and Moshe was trying to reconcile them in shalom, saying, ‘Anashim, you are achim, why are you injuring one another?’ [Ex 2:13]
27 "But the one injuring his re’a pushed Moshe aside, saying MI SAMECHA L’ISH SAR V’SHOFET ALENU ("Who made you ruler and judge over us?"—Ex 2:14)
28 "HALEHARGENI ATAH OMER KA’ASHER HARAGTA yesterday ES HAMITZRI ("You do not mean to kill me in the same manner as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?")
29 "And Moshe Rabbenu fled at this dvar and became a stranger in eretz Midyan, where he became the father of shnei banim. [Ex 2:11-15]
43 And after two yamim (days), he went out from there into the Galil.
44 For Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach himself gave solemn edut (testimony) that a Navi does not have kavod (honor) in his own country.
45 Therefore, when he came into the Galil, those of the Galil received Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, vi-bahlt (since) they had seen all which he did in Yerushalayim during the Chag, for they also went to the Chag.
46 Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came again into Kanah of the Galil where he made the mayim (water) into yayin (wine). There was a certain royal official whose ben was choleh (ill) in K’far-Nachum.
47 This man, having heard that Yehoshua comes from the land of Yehudah into the Galil, went to him and was asking him to come down and cure the ben of him. For the yeled was about to die.
48 Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Except you see otot (miraculous signs) and moftim (wonders), you will never have emunah (faith). [DANIEL 4:2-3,37]
49 The royal official says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, come down before my yeled dies.
50 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Go! Bincha chai (your son lives)! [MELACHIM ALEF 17:23] The man had emunah (faith) in the dvar that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had said to him, and the man departed.
51 And as the man was going, his avadim met him, saying that the man’s yeled lives.
52 Therefore, the man inquired from them the sha’ah (hour, time) in which the yeled began to recover. Then they said to him, Etmol (yesterday) at the sha’ah hashevi’it (seventh hour) the fever left him.
53 Therefore, the abba knew that it was the same sha’ah (hour, time) in which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Bincha chai! And the man had emunah and all his bais.
54 Now this was ot hasheni (the second miraculous sign) that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did after having come from the land of Yehudah to the Galil.
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