Ashrey Ish

Happy is the man who heeds your commandments, your Torah, and who places your word upon his heart. It is true that you are the Lord of your people and the mighty king to plead their case. It is true, you are the first and the last, and besides you we have no king, redeemer and savior.

For the beginning times and for the later times your word is good and endures forever and ever. True and faithful, a statute which shall not pass away. It is true that you are he, the Lord our God and god of our fathers. Our king and king of our fathers, our redeemer and redeemer of our fathers, our maker, the rock of our salvation, our deliverer and our rescuer from everlasting, this is your name.
There is no god besides you.

From Egypt you redeemed us, Lord our God, and from the house of slavery you delivered us. All their first-born you slayed, and your first-born you redeemed. And the sea of reeds you divided and drowned the proud, but the beloved ones you caused to pass through while the waters covered their adversaries; one from another did not remain.

Therefore, the beloved praised and extolled God, and the beloved ones gave hymns and songs and praises and blessings and thanks to the king, God who lives and endures.

You are high and wonderful, great and feared, who brings low the proud and raises the humble, who brings forth the prisoners and delivers the meek and helps the poor and answers his people in the time when they cry to him.

Praise our exalted God, blessed is he who is to be blessed. Moses and the people of Israel snag a song to you with great joy. They all said, "Who is like you, O Lord among the gods; who is like you, glorious in holiness, awesome in praises, doing wonders."

Mee kamoka ba-ayleem adonai, mee kamokha
Who like you among gods Lord, who like you

ne'dar bakodesh, nora' t'heelot,
glorious in holiness awesome in praises

oseh felay
doing wonders.



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