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Ṣalota ʾAstarʾi Introduction. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has done great and wondrous things by Himself. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has brought me to this day, to this time. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has preserved you for me to this day, to this time. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, the God of our fathers, the One God, Adonai, and glorious is your name, O Lord, forever. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; faithful is all your work, O Lord, and straight are your ways. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for you are just, Adonai, in all that you have brought. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, the God of Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, who sent his angel and saved them from the servants who were burning them alive, and he prayed and opened his mouth in the midst of the fire and said: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel. Concerning the praise and concerning the children, know my praise in this book. My Lord, my Lord, by your holy name, have mercy on me.

Blessed be the Lord God of Adam and Seth. Blessed be the Lord God of Abel, the sacrifice. Blessed be the Lord God of Noah and Shem. Blessed be the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac. Blessed be the Lord God of Jacob, Israel. Blessed be the Lord God of Levi, Kohath, Amram. Blessed be the Lord God of Moses and Aaron. Blessed be the Lord God of Eleazar and Phinehas. Blessed be the Lord God of Joshua and Caleb. Blessed be the Lord God of David and Solomon. Blessed be the Lord God of Ezra and Daniel. Blessed be the Lord God of Eli and Samuel. Blessed be the Lord God of Zadok, Azariah. Blessed be the Lord God of the word of Baruch and Abimelech. Blessed be the Lord God of Ananias, Azariah, and Mishael. Blessed be the Lord God of Ṣabra, Ṣega, ʾAmlak. Blessed be the Lord God of Zion and Jerusalem. Blessed be the Lord God of the priests and the prophets. Blessed be the Lord God of the former and the latter. Blessed be the Lord God of the righteous and the pure.

Hallelujah. Praise to the Lord God. God of light, who separated light from darkness. Whom all his angels praise. Lord before me and behind me. Blessed Lord, existing and present. First, beginning, and last, without end. Lord, creator of all his work. Lord, all that is possible, and there is none who can hinder him. Lord, there is none who can say to them, "What is his work?" Lord, only holy one. Hallelujah. Praise to the Lord God. First, without beginning. And Lord, before he creates for glory. Lord, mighty God. Lord, for all his work that he has done. Lord, creator of all creation. Lord, who awakened me from sleep. Lord, who preserved me and made me wise. Lord, as one who gave me the Sabbath for rest.

Blessings. Hallelujah, praise to the Lord God. Yit’eg, because he heard me, the word of my prayer. Yit’eg, who poured out his mercy upon me. Yit’eg, from now and until eternity. Yit’eg, who completed my prayer. Yit’eg, Lord, in all times. Yit’eg, Lord, very good Lord God. Yit’eg, Lord, may it be for eternity of eternity. Yit’eg, from before the world and until eternity. Yit’eg, Lord, who did not bring me into prisons. Yit’eg, who softened the enmity of my enemies. Yit’eg, Lord, God of our fathers. Collection of Bible Verses: God the Judge. Hallelujah, praise to the Lord God. May the Lord God help me, and may I not be deceived. O Lord, our righteous ones with the sinners. Truly, O Lord, let this judgment not be done. Truly, O Lord, who condemned the earth. Lord God, my God, I praise you. Let there be faithful counsel concerning this. May the needy people bless you, covering their shame and their nakedness. Righteous ones, O Lord, hide me, guardian of the solitary. O Lord, protect me. I have trusted in your power, O Lord, great and eternal God, because the ways of the Lord God are straight. And we have trusted in his holy name, and we have remembered what our soul desired.

The remission of sins. Hallelujah, praise to the Lord who forgives sin. My sin, which is by my will and my evil, remember for me and forgive all my sin. Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven them, and who have reckoned all their errors. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has granted the forgiveness of his sin. My sin, I have confessed, and my transgression, I have hidden. And you, forgive the darkness of my heart. I will confess my errors and repent because of my sin. And forgive my soul, for I have sinned against you. Sprinkle me and cleanse me from my sin, for I alone know my errors and my sin before me. It is for all time that I have sinned before you. O Lord, blot out all my transgression. For sin, you forgive us, and for error, you pardon us. You who have forgiven them all their sin, remember for us our transgression of yesterday, and forgive us our sin because of your name. He who forgives you all your sin, it is not as our sin which he has done to us, and he has not judged us according to our transgression. Remove from us our sin, and forgive me all my sin. I have sinned from my youth. Remember the sins of your servants.

Hallelujah, praise to the Lord who gave the remission of sins to Enoch, the wisdom of the one who does not die. Adonai, you are the Lord who has no limit to his wisdom, and by your wisdom fill my mouth with your praise, that I may praise and thank you. You are in heaven and you are on earth, who gathers together all creation. For we are not those who have spoken this to you; it is fitting, praise that does not change your throne and that does not end your kingdom. Remission of sins and favor for your servant Simeon. Direct my tongue, and I have invoked your name, O Lord. Uncover my lips when I speak of your praise. Uncover my heart, uncover my ear and my mouth with the word of the Lord. Uncover for the Lord your way; let my tongue rejoice in your righteousness. O Lord, uncover my lips and my mouth, that they may sing your praise. And before the peoples, he uncovered his covenant. Direct my tongue for the learning of your words. Wisdom, uncover Jerusalem, as he uncovered for Daniel in the vision of the night. Uncover for me, for the servant.

God hears the prayer of the poor. Hallelujah, praise to the Lord who is beyond the limit of this hearing, while greatly increasing the sight of hearing the prayer of the poor, and he does not reject the words of the poor. For upon you, indeed, the poor have been cast; the desires of the poor—the Lord hears them, and the thought of their hearts, he makes their ear hear. For he has been merciful and has not been angered by the petition of the poor. The poor speak and are silent; I am poor and needy; I am poor and destitute. For the Lord has heard the poor and saved me, for I am poor. From my littleness, I am your servant; I am poor and wretched. Peace, commandments concerning the Day of Atonement. Hallelujah, praise to the Lord. Peace upon peace, and let there be peace through your power; peace upon Israel. Through your peace, bring me in, and you have established a covenant of eternity. And the Lord spoke to Moses and said to him, "Tell the children of Israel: When you fast in the seventh month, and it is holy, and it is appointed for you, it will afflict your soul, that through it you may be revealed. And for your sake, before your Lord, a law of eternity shall be for you; my Sabbath of Sabbaths, it is for you, when from the faith of the fast, that month, from sunrise to sunrise.

The night. Hallelujah, praise to the Lord. And you have heard me, O Lord, Lord God. Amen. Merciful and forgiving, who is above the height, who dwells, holy Lord God, who dwells in Jerusalem the high. In the middle of the night I will enter the midst of Egypt, which slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man to beast. And when it was the middle of the night, it slew all Egypt. And Pharaoh arose by night and summoned Moses and Aaron by night before the presence of the Lord, that he might bring them out of the land of Egypt. And that night, thirty days and thirty nights. By night, hear me, Father, my plea, and I will count all the night my vigil. And again by night you have touched my kidneys; you have left me by night and tested my heart. By night, for the night, wisdom is wondrous. My night before you, you have revealed to me. For by day and by night the weight of your hand is upon me. Sustenance has become my portion by day and by night; the hardness of your hand is upon me. Sustenance has become my portion by day and by night, evening and morning. And by day I proclaim to you: it is of the day, and yours is the night.

I wandered in the night with my heart, and I awakened my soul. And all the night, by the light of fire, and at the hour of night, how many years before them, and I do not fear the terror of the night. And justify me in the night, and I became like a blind man in a house. The night brings darkness, and it becomes night. And the fire, as it shines for them in the night, I remembered in the night your name, O Lord. I wandered, Adonai, by the word. Hear me in the midst of the night. I rise as if to pray to you concerning the judgment of your righteousness. The day of the sun and the moon and the night, from the hour of morning until night. In the night, raise your hands in the temple for the moon and for the stars which he established. The night, in the night, my spirit inclines toward you, O Lord. Hallelujah, praise to the Lord. And your ruins, O Jerusalem, shall be rebuilt. And for you, prayer shall be fulfilled in Jerusalem, within your ordinance, O Jerusalem.

And I have seen Jerusalem, and the blood of Jerusalem has dried. Your praise, Jerusalem, and in your midst, Jerusalem, within your trees, Jerusalem, a building, Jerusalem. And they have been adorned, the beauty of Jerusalem, and you see the goodness of Jerusalem. He who dwells within Jerusalem, a building, Jerusalem. He who dwells within Jerusalem, I have raised you up, Jerusalem, on the day of Jerusalem, you will be praised, Jerusalem, the city of our fathers, Jerusalem, holy Jerusalem, the dwelling place of the saints, Jerusalem. And by her mercy, Jerusalem, and in your city, Jerusalem, and the angels, the singers, Jerusalem. And concerning Jerusalem, and concerning Jerusalem, great is her, Jerusalem. Again, the appearance of Jerusalem, the mountain of its sanctuary, Jerusalem. Within Jerusalem, you will be buried, Jerusalem. When they went forth, Jerusalem, and he said to them, to the peoples, Jerusalem, remember, O people, Jerusalem, and break, Jerusalem, and by her gates, Jerusalem, holy Jerusalem, her streets, Jerusalem, the hands of Judah, Jerusalem, and the gate, Jerusalem, where he dwells, Jerusalem, the houses, Jerusalem, her streets, Jerusalem, her houses, Jerusalem. And for the tablets, Jerusalem, weep, Jerusalem, the word of Jerusalem, those who fled, Jerusalem, her multitudes, Jerusalem, all that he spoke, Jerusalem. And we came, Jerusalem, to you, Jerusalem, all the people, Jerusalem, from the mouth of the door, Jerusalem. All the power, Jerusalem, your rest, Jerusalem, and for the multitude, Jerusalem, when they take her up, Jerusalem, for the people of Judah, Jerusalem, the gate of her gates, Jerusalem.

The morning. Hallelujah, praise to the Lord in the morning. Hear my voice in the morning. I stand before you and I show myself to you, and again in his hope my flesh has dwelt, and you have strengthened me with power. In the evening weeping ceases, and in the morning joy; and they prepare the fattened ones in the morning. In the morning I read to you, for you have been my helper, and I rejoice in the morning. The angels of your mercy go forth in the morning, and your mystery rejoices. The heaven from the direction of the morning. In the morning my prayer reaches you. In the morning it passes and goes by, for we have been saved in the morning by your mercy, and they proclaim in the morning your mercy. In the morning I kill all the sinners of the earth, and I bore you from the womb, before the morning star, from the hour of morning until night. From the hour of morning Israel trusted in the Lord, who hears. Do for me your mercy in the morning, as the Lord said: "His judgment." In the morning servants and prophets, weep in the dawn, and they sanctify the horses in the morning. Jerusalem, from the direction of the morning, he removed them and taught them in the morning, and he looked until the morning. Faithful is he, the work of the Lord from the direction of the morning, for like lightning that comes forth from the morning, in the morning he gives his judgment on the day of Friday.

In the morning light, and Moses went forth in the morning; let him be merciful, let him be a purifier; let him be merciful, judge me without the sea; without the sea, and who is like you, the voice of the wave in the morning, hear my voice; he is merciful, he is. From the rising of the sun until the setting, the name of the Lord is glorified; known over us is the light of your face; the light of his face has passed through the cloud; by your light we see the light, and by your righteousness and the light of my eyes, for the true one, send your light and your righteousness without your right and your left, and the light of your face descends into the world, his fathers, and I do not see you, light, until eternity; and all the night by the light of fire, O Lord, by the light of your face they walk, and the world also walks within the light of your face; let his light be upon us; brightly it dawned for the righteous, and you have put on light as a garment, by the light of the saints. Light dawned for the wanderers in the darkness, a beacon for my path; see my head, see my suffering for the Lord. For darkness does not darken before you, at the measure of its darkness, like its light, the maker of great lights.

All the stars praise him, and the light of your radiance, a hymn like light itself, in the light of your wave they move, for the light of your command is upon the earth, and it illuminates Moses with light. O God, and for the chosen ones, the light of the righteous becomes light through the light of the sun, and the chosen ones through the light of life. And they brought forth the light, and the righteous found it, and darkness passed away. Light, be a companion; be reconciled. And the light of his judgment blesses all who are near him, for the lights and the Word are one light. All light that surpasses the book of the covenant, the lights of heaven, and this is the first command of the lights. The sun, the lights, come; the companions come; the light that is great, whose name is the sun, over all light, let there be light. These are the lights that were established; let there be light, and let it prevail before the light; let it be adorned within it; let the light be lifted up above it; and by its light let it be adorned, like the light of the sun and like lightning. And their fruit is all light, a vision that Enoch, the scribe of righteousness, saw, and within the heavens, where is the light? And the time of rest, the light of the covenant, where is it? And I saw a light; I am lowly beneath the sky, lights of light. His praise is in his mercy, and the paths of the righteous are like light, and the light is the path of life for the righteous at all times. Light, the Lord breathed light for the rain, and light emerged into darkness; there is no light on the day he created light. Come, let us go.

In the light of the Lord, and the Lord said, "Let there be light." And the Lord divided the midst of light, and the Lord appointed for light the day of two great lights, the great light that rules the day, and the small light that rules the night, the midst of light and the midst of night. But you, you are like, and your light that does not darken, you showed Moses your face of light, the light that illuminates light, the light that the sun goes out for, the light that you cause to set in your name—there is no work for the light of your face before light is created, and before a point and light are established. The light that you cause to set in your name—there is no work for the light of your face before light is created, and before a point and light are established. The creator who created light, the maker who makes light, when the lights of heaven rejoice, show us, O Lord, your light. Give him who has light, his light that does not perish, forever. Before it is known, he bound light. Illuminate, O Lord, your light upon us. You made light and darkness; it is the end, there is no light. Morning and evening, light shines from the circle of light until the circle of darkness, as the coming of the lights, hailstone, small, his dwelling, his garment of light that does not darken.

Light of the Lord, light that does not darken, and its joy that does not pass away, perfect of the perfect, light of lights, for the shining light that drives away the darkness of Seraphiel and Cherubiel, perfect light, grant me the light of the Holy Spirit, where there is no darkness, perfect light, grant me the light of the Holy Spirit, where there is no darkness, perfect light. Blessed Lord, blessed God of light, blessed vision of power within the light. Hallelujah to the Lord, power, God of Israel, and his fragrance. To Moses, we saw with our eyes and we heard with our ears: there is no other God besides you. You yourself are as your years, which do not pass away, while praising your kingdom, King over all. For you alone created the world in fullness, you first made the boundaries for the earth. Great is his worship; let it be.

Fill my mouth with your praise, while it is marveled at in the daytime. Wisdom and understanding, do not let me stray; place me with your righteous ones. To him every knee of creation bows; they bow and bend to you. Amen, amen. Great power and authority, where shall I go from your spirit? Woe to me, woe to me! Every soul and my flesh that have believed in you, by their lives, and these memorials of you, by their safety, and do not destroy them in vain. I bow and bend to you alone, and I do not alter your kingdom, and I sing his praise, and everything bends to his praise, and everything judges in his kingdom. Amen. Great praise, you have put on sweetness for my throat; you have spoken; raise up the matter of your praise. From every sealed thing, save me. I have loved your name; I have despised your commandment; I have been immersed in your salvation; I have believed in you. O Lord, I have cried out to you continually; from your voice, you have thrust me away. Show us the drops of righteousness. I am earth before you, which brings forth new things, which shows wonders, and is not ashamed. I am your servant Simeon. Fashion for us a pure heart for your servants; do not let me stray from the portion of your chosen ones. Hear me, O Lord of my prayer. Amen, amen, one God.

Praises and exaltations of the name Adonai. Halleluya, who is and will be, Halleluya, there is no shadow, Halleluya, in whom all creation believed, Halleluya, and the mighty plan, Halleluya, who has no companion, Halleluya, who has no death, Adonai Elohi, priest, you are Adonai Elohi of Israel, glorious Adonai, your work Adonai, holy, holy Adonai, may they bless you at all times, Adonai my Lord, my God, may he praise, may he be praised, his name for Adonai, Adonai, by day a dweller, Adonai, by night a guardian, Adonai, Adonai, king of eternity, Adonai, Adonai, you are Adonai, merciful, your name Adonai, Adonai, who is from you, from the abyss, Adonai, God, hidden, Adonai, mouth for all creation, Adonai, Adonai, God, only you who rules, Adonai, over all the earth, my God, magnify, you are my God and my Lord, you are my God and my hope, my God, I cry out to you.

Praises, Sabbath. Halleluya, praise to the Lord. Give me your holy Sabbath. What is your feast, Lord of all? All creation praises you, and the blessing of the earth to the Lord. Father of praise, holder of the whole world, rejoice greatly. The righteous shall be glad. For the sake of the Sabbath, the shadow of the Sabbath shall be glad. The moon, having completed its course, the mortal, earthly one who does not die, until eternity, and she said to him: Because the Sabbath is glorious, hear me, O Lord, one word. I shall make known the cry with your wisdom, through the mouth of Moses, your little one. I have stood for the Sabbath, that I may save my servants and my limbs, for who is merciful and forgiving? Who raises his head for a generation from the rising of the seed of Adam? The sun and the moon, they are pure before you. Patience is glad before the Lord. Humility is glad before the Lord. We do not worship, we do not bow to an idol, the work of human hands, a pagan god. Be for me, you are the creator of heaven and earth, and death, my Lord, without them killing him and burying him, these my people, my inheritance. Grief, the first death, bitter and harsh judgment, hell for eternity, as the eighth is the righteous and gentle.

Merciful and forgiving, great art thou, God of Daniel. Daniel confessed to the God of heaven and earth, “Amen, thy God is the God of gods.” He set forth the word that was written, and when Daniel cried out, “Father, save me, Father, the strength of Israel, the story of Ananias, the story of Azarias, and the story of Misael, the story of Israel.” Amen, the dwelling of this world. Amen, the dwelling of this world. Amen, truly, when didst thou come to me, O angel of death? He said to me, “Joy.

Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel. The vision that Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz, saw. Hear, O heaven, and make the earth hear. Abandon your evil, repent, do good. How did it come to pass? What of the city of Zion? The word that came to Isaiah, and it came to pass in later days. Woe to my soul, for they conspired evil, for the children of Zion were scattered. Instead of the fragrance of your pasture, may it be a path for you. Woe to those who laugh at sin. Woe to me, for they abandoned the word of your command. Light is dark, dark is light. Woe to those who write evil books, and they filled the house of his praise with lies. The Seraphim stand in the court and say, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord of Hosts." Do you know and have you heard that the great God is eternal? Righteous, life-giving, there is none like you. His name is not, they have seen, you will see, and you will marvel, O fathers of this city. Save me and on account of David, my children, and cast out the thorns from within her. There is none who knows his counsel, and none who knows his thought, for the deed of our salvation is spoken. I say to Zion, "Remember the mercy of the Lord." And all his work is righteousness, continually for the house of Israel, for he remembered that their blood would be avenged. And do not spare their enemies. Strike, strike your neck, O daughter of Zion, she calls you.

Series of eulogies.

Thus says the Lord: "My righteousness and my justice are upright." Thus says the Lord Most High, who dwells in the heights: "I have spread out all and consumed all, for I am the Lord who loves righteousness, and I give the deeds of the righteous to the children of Zion." The glorious ones were adorned with gold, for they clothed me with the garment of life and covered me with the covering of honor. Say to the daughter of Zion: "Behold, your king, whose garment is good, who is hidden, glorious, and mighty—let them be adorned for me, let them eat; you shall be abundant. Let them be adorned for me, let them drink for me; you shall rejoice. Let them be adorned for me; you shall rejoice, you shall be exalted." For they bless the God of righteousness, the God of David. "I have spread out; you have heard your prayer. Let us proclaim the news of peace, like the news of good things." And Zion said: "He has left me and abandoned me." The Lord: "My heaven is my throne, hallelujah; my height is my sanctuary, hallelujah. Where is my sanctuary and my dwelling place? O Lord, blot out like a cloud my sins. You are the first; you are eternal. You are the last; you are eternal. We see with our eyes, and we hear with our ears. There is no other besides you. The one who hears does the deed; the one who watches keeps watch; the one who completes finishes. Even unto death, a man who speaks with his mouth, walks on foot, is deaf of ear, is blind—O soul, O soul, weep for what is lost, weep for what has died, for the time of light has passed. There is no guide for your memory. O death, with shame, what sin is coming?

And in reverence for glory and praise, the first of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. The Lord Most High, whose name is Wāw, shall overshadow like wine. His dwelling is a crown of glory for your head; gold and silver for your neck; good understanding before you, O Lord. Blessed is the man who has obtained wisdom, from the right and from the left, wealth and glory. He who does righteousness surpasses her. Gold and silver are not equal to her. The days of Noah, the years of life—wisdom has plowed the earth and appointed clouds, has adorned her paths, the paths of good, and all her works are in peace. Trust in her and do not be ashamed, for you are chosen in her. Do not be foolish, for the shadow of wisdom is like the shadow of silver. All is vanity, says the Preacher. What is the measure of man? Understanding. The first from our fathers, and he said to him: "Your helper is the Lord, O honorable man, Abraham. And if he has given me the key of your gate, I am in joy and in haste.

And then Michael came forth from the house of Abraham, and came forth from before the Lord, and a cloud passed by with Abraham, and its dew fell toward the Ocean. I, Abraham, have seen the place of the great trembling and the small trembling, and I have beheld its light and its brilliance. There is no pure garment, and at the time when Isaac wept, and only they wept, one by one, and his covenant and the work of his mercy. And if there is a command and faith, everything that says, "Power, my power, Holy Spirit, let it be," and he gave mercy, and Abraham gave. Lord, have mercy on him who is, and forgive his sin; let it be with us the blessing of our fathers Abraham and Isaac. O my beloved, keep my commandment which I have entrusted today; keep the creature in the image of the Lord. And likewise, may the Lord do for you. And when he said this, my Lord, the First and the Last, took and bound and tied with us, and upon the holy chariot he ascended into the heavens above the cherubim and seraphim, who praise before him, and he gave it to her, and he completed for him the eternal covenant. This is the rest of our fathers Abraham. O my children, be, honor the saints. O my children, be for the merchants, for those whom you wish to have mercy, for he who gives bread to the poor in the fullness of praise and glory, so that the Lord may give you the bread of life in the kingdom of the Lord, so that the Lord may clothe you with the garment of glory in the heavens, and let it be, my son, my holy fathers. In this, remember the saints.

Excerpts from Gregory the Prophet. And then the angel said to him, "O soul, do not fear, for you are the glory of the righteous, for you are the crown of the pure, for you are the greatness of the humble and the strength of the weak. And you shall receive the fruit of virtues; you shall find grace upon the earth, as Gregory saw after death. There is no repentance. Our Father, our heart which burns us, our head, rivers of fire, both sides. My brothers, come, let us pray to the God of heaven. My brothers, do not be evil. My brothers, the days have passed. My brothers, let us remember our death. My brothers, be reconciled to the right. My brothers, do not be angry for the left. I have heard a great report; I have heard a marvelous report; I have heard a report of everything that rules. Woe to me, woe to me, for I have become like this. Woe to me for my soul, for the good has perished. Woe to me, the price has arrived; there is no pure one. There is no pure one before the Lord. "What is the measure?" said the Lord, "Now?" And the angel said to him, "Pardon your people, O Lord, those who have gathered and assembled. The people of destruction. Give peace to this land." And Abraham prayed as he prayed for our fathers. "See, they have seen peace together. They have assembled. Turn away your wrath.

Excerpt from the Word that was with Jeremiah the Prophet: "From the womb, from the womb, I have known you; I have placed you within our city in peace. His commandment is eternal, and his law is eternal." Thus said the Lord who rules over all: "For I am the Lord who has done mercy." Thus said the Lord, the mighty God of Israel: "All the children of Jacob shall live. O Israel, where is the great house of the Lord? We have come, we have come; there is no other God besides you. Hear, O Israel, the commandment of the Lord." Aleph: "Where is her dwelling, alone, the house of my weeping? In weeping, the camel of Judah fled." Daleth: "Her paths to Zion." Heth: "Sin has sinned." Qoph: "I have cried out your name." Aleph: "Where is the measure of gold and silver? See, O Lord, our affliction, and see, O Lord, our poverty." Excerpt from: "Blessed be the Lord, God of Israel, God of all that is flesh and of all spirit." The Torah that went forth: "These are the names of the children of Israel." And the Lord heard their cry and remembered his oath. "I have known their cry and I have declared that I will save them. I have besought you, O Lord; hear my voice, I have no one else." Thus said the Lord: "Send my people." Thus said the Lord, God of the Hebrews: "I am he who is and will be." And all the land of Egypt saw: "They destroyed the fortress, for they drank the water of the fortress. When did he pray for you? He ate manna for forty years until the wing of your shoulder arrived.

We worship the gods, and there is nothing that is not from me. And he performed mercy upon 1000 up to 10000 generations. For six days all your works were done, and on the seventh day, the Sabbath, you rested for the Lord. Do not work on it, and do nothing under his feet, like the work of the fan of Senfer. And the clouds turned, and the Lord descended on a pillar of cloud on Mount Sinai, showing his form. Fire blazed for forty days and forty nights, and it will be abundant, while their wings, the wings of fire, grew. And Moses prayed before his God and said, "I have eaten nothing, and I have drunk nothing." The work of the Lord is sweet, for he is the ransom of his soul, the ransom of his heir, the ransom of his master, the ransom of the enemy. In the vision of the ransom, truly, hear me, Lord God, merciful and forgiving. Have mercy on the one on whom you have had mercy, forgive the one whom you have forgiven.

Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, for every spirit and for every flesh. The Law and the Deuteronomy, this is the word that he spoke to Moses. And now, Israel, hear his judgment. Behold, the heaven and the earth have heard for you, and then beseech the Lord here, for the God is merciful. He will not abandon you, nor will he destroy you, nor will he forget the covenant of your fathers. For your fathers, this word is not from another God besides him. From heaven he made his voice heard and established his covenant with you at Horeb, for I am the Lord, a jealous God. He showed me his glory. Hear, O Israel: the Lord your God, the Lord is one. Love him with all your heart and with all your mind. After you have eaten and drunk, worship him alone. Worship the Lord, serve the Lord. Hear, O Israel: behold, you have crossed the Jordan. You have become hot and hungry, and then manna sustained you. And now, what have you desired, O Lord? Is it not that in every word that comes from his mouth, he is truthful? Yogi, be amazed in your heart. Bow your head firmly, and guard your soul firmly. Your people are perverse, and your leaders are faithful. O Lord, the earth has become white with a glorious and honored name for the Lord, that you may know that I am the Lord. That you may hear the Lord. Let the covenant be from you. Remove the evil that sprouts and bears fruit. The earth is near to you. The word is in your mouth and in your heart and in your

I have placed my hand upon you, that you may work this earth. Behold, I have set before your face life and death, the matter of this song. I have called upon your name, O Lord; I have summoned their leaders and their guides and their guardians, that they may be as the pupil of the eye. Where are your gods? Know, know that I am the Lord God. Let all the heavens rejoice together, and hear me for you, with cloud and dew. Verses extracted from: Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, to Ezra the priest, in the thirtieth year. And then he was in the desert of our country, Babylon. I am Sutu'el, who was named Ezra, and I was at Dangafe. I commanded the earth and brought forth Adam in the flesh. Death, good and evil have passed, and the times have passed and been completed. And you have cast away your people and left your enemies, and you have not looked. And if now, after this path, the wood of the bramble is cut down, woe to the one who cuts it; and if the water of the canal is cut off, woe to the one who cuts it. The bramble that does not wither is a marvel. All your work, the world is transient; we have bowed down, the eternal dweller; we have cast away, we have loved our death, our enemy; we have loved your life. The queen of the world, alone, and she found the queen of the world, alone, that which cannot be measured, your throne, and that which does not wither, your praise, from the right, fire, and from the left, a spring.

One path, which is in the midst of fire and judgment; the righteous one, by his deed, lives; the sinners, where have they gone? And every man of spirit and the interior of the world, within his deed and command; who is it that has appointed you? Behold, see before you from my presence joy and rest, and from my presence judgment and fire, without his sole lightning of his praise; and it was a single day like seven hundred years. Who is he that was born and will abandon my ordinance? For evil has risen against us; and if he has done a high deed for one world, no; and for two worlds, O Lord, he has done a high deed from earth into your land, a creation like you, upon him who is of the earth. The wild beasts of the desert rejoice, and they have wept for all generations; and they have hidden my guidance from the moth. What is it that, by our cry, we have lived the life of all of us, we who were born and were baptized in sin, and were filled with heavy transgression? His father, Adam the first, what deed is good? Only when he is created, for they are good, from us, each one, as much as he has been restrained. The high one from me, and I have borne you from me, and why have I saddened you? Fire is consuming; it exists. Why did you create him, and why do you cause him to forget? There is none who can have mercy on him who is afflicted in judgment. That one, I know his sufferings; for him who died on the day of judgment, can the righteous hate the sinners before the high one?

And now, as it was revealed to Abraham beforehand, because of his deed, for with much fasting he struggled, so that he might overcome the evil mind that was upon him, and first bow down to the exalted glory. And who is there, and above whom is there, who can bear his own burden upon the edge? For all his righteousness is hidden in his deed. Reveal the righteousness, whose measure of dwelling is this, without fruit in its seasons. What is there for us after our death? And as for the matter of death, from the time the word of command went forth from Adam, the generation, the fruit of the sin of Adam, they were taught to him who sinned. Our fathers, their children, our children, their fathers, our relatives, their relatives, our friends, their friends, as now the fathers send to the children and their gifts. And we, his servants, our deed, and we, the good hope that they told us, we have abandoned. Adam, what have we done?

And Moses said to the people, "Choose for yourselves life, and everyone who invokes the name of the Lord shall be saved by the righteousness of the king, the angel Michael, whose eye is wide, whose garment is of lightning, the faithful, the praised, who is glorified. How good are your houses, Jacob! How good are your eyes, Israel! Now the rod of Aaron, of the tribe of Levi, has blossomed, put forth leaves, flowered, and borne fruit. Place the rod of Aaron, which has come to life, for all that has breath, and to you all the angels of heaven, the holy ones, bow down." And Moses made haste and prayed before their god and said, "Remember your covenant with Isaac and with Jacob, which you took when you revealed yourself, O Lord." Collection of various verses. To the god of Moses, ever praised, Hallelujah, at the right hand and in his mercy, Hallelujah, may he bless him who sent his angel to his servants. "Hear this, rejoice, O righteous ones, god of gods." And he said, "I revealed myself; I revealed myself to Moses and spoke to him by the burning bush when they were circumcised for Egypt, for Jacob, and I brought him out and led him into Mount Sinai, and I said to him, 'Peace and salvation,' and he said to me, 'Aleph, Aleph, creator of all creation, glory to the Lord.'

Rejoicing of the righteous. May the Lord God of Israel be blessed, and may your love place rejoicing in our heart. May he rejoice and be glad in you. May Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad, and may rejoicing be in your right hand for this one. O Lord, by your power may the king rejoice, and may the multitude be glad. In the evening weeping ceases, and in the morning rejoicing. The righteous have rejoiced in the Lord, for our heart rejoices in him. The meek hear and rejoice, and they clothe themselves for the Lord with the word of rejoicing. The mountains of Zion rejoice, and the bones of the righteous rejoice. And I rejoice in the morning of your mercy. They go forth in the morning and evening; they rejoice, and we rejoice together. For the righteous rejoice. Come, let us rejoice in the Lord. The heavens rejoice and the earth is glad. Zion has heard and rejoiced. Bow down to the Lord with rejoicing. The Lord rejoices in his work. Make a feast with rejoicing, and your righteous ones rejoice in rejoicing. Israel rejoices in its Creator, and they praise his name with rejoicing, having faith. The Temple of Jerusalem rejoices, the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea.

The sea. Verses from the and the concerning the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. May the Lord God of Israel be blessed, and now let us be joyful in the sea, and he is in the sea, a meadow that gathers together like a reed for the water of the sea. And if they fled into the heart of the sea, and those who are in the distant sea, he who casts down for the beast of the sea, who moistens the sea, dries it up. And the one who struck the surface of the sea, and I arrived into the depth of the sea, and everything within it. And he judges from sea to sea. You have made the sea firm like one who makes the right hand high in the sea, your path, and you showed me in the water. Much seaweed covered the sea, and he caused them to pass through, and he stopped the water like a reed. Their guide by day in a cloud, and like the sand of the sea, birds that fly, and the sea covered them for their protection. You judge the power of the sea, the sea and the evening that you created. And I place my hand in the sea, a wonder, a garment for the sea, for from it is the sea, and the sea is covered in its fullness. This sea is great and wide, and they sweetened you when they ascended into the sea of Eritrea. And terrible in the sea of Eritrea, from east and west and evening. Those who descend into the sea. Hallelujah. When the Israelites came out of Egypt, the sea saw and groaned. What have you become, sea, that you left the sea of Eritrea, that you looked upon Pharaoh?

In the sea, and I have sunk as far as the depth of the sea, and all that is moved within it. Let us praise the Lord God, Amen, glorious, who was glorified. The horse and the chariot fell and descended into the sea, for the chariots of Pharaoh entered, and his army was cast into the sea, and they were drowned in the Red Sea. And the wave returned in the midst of the sea, for I have perished beyond the number of the shores of the sea, and like the pebbles of the seashore, you have cast your horses into the sea. And all the force of Pharaoh, when he came into the sea, none remained. My God, my God. O my God, save me. My God, arise, O Lord, my God, and save me, my king and my God. For you are not a God of transgression. He loves, O Lord, my God. In you I have trusted, O Lord, my God. If I have done thus, arise, O Lord, in the ordinance you commanded. Open for me, O Lord, my God, according to your righteousness. Arise, O Lord, my God, and lift up your hand. Look upon me and hear me, O Lord, Hallelujah, my God and my friend, and I will trust in him. And I have cried out to my God, and I have not perished for my God. My God, my God, will lighten my darkness, and by my God the rest will be prolonged. For my God, his path is pure. Who is the God besides the Lord? And who is the Lord besides our living God? The Lord is blessed, my God, and exalted is the God of my salvation. My God will bring me into my old age, and his name will stand for the God of Jacob.

And I cried out, "In the name of the Lord God, my God, my God, my God, look upon me, and why have you abandoned me? My God, I have cried out to you from the womb of my mother. You are my God, and have mercy on me from the Lord God, his God, and the face of the God of Jacob seeks. Lord God, God of the mighty, I have bowed down my soul to my God, and have mercy on me, for you are my God and my savior. To you, O Lord, I have cried out to you, my God. My God of praise has finished me. The Lord God, my God, has shattered. I have cried out to you, and you have had mercy on me. To you, to my God, you have had mercy. O Lord, my God, I will praise you forever. Be for me, my God and my savior. Save me, Lord God of righteousness, and I will say to you, my God, you are blessed. The people of the Lord God, his God, my God and my Lord, within my belly, open for me. O Lord, my God, according to your righteousness and the law of his God within his heart, you have heard me. O Lord, my God, your miracle, as I declare your will, I have considered. My God, my helper and my savior, you are my God. The thirst of my soul for my God, the living water, I will reach and see the face of my God, for they all say to me, "Where is your God?" I will say to the Lord God, my God, you.

My salvation, my face, my God, for you are my God and my strength. To my God, who has made my poverty flourish, I beseech you, my God, and do not depart, our God, with our strength when we have accepted the name of our God, and when we have lifted up our hands to our God. Strange! Because of your burial, O Lord God, your God. Our God is our strength, our weapon, and our refuge. The God of Jacob, sing to our God. Sing, angels of the peoples, gather with the God of Abraham. In the city of our God, on the mountain of his sanctuary, Hallelujah, Lord of powers. In the city of our God, for this is our God, the God of gods, the Lord God, and our God, I will not be silent. Our God is God. I am he who saves me from blood. O Lord God, God of my salvation, I have cried out to the Lord my God. Hear me, my God. I will tell you my life. Now I know that you, my God, are the Lord, God of powers, King of Israel.

May the mercy of my God reach me. My God, show me my enemies, and I will cast them down. My God, my helper, and they shall know that the God of Jacob is my helper. You, I will sing to you, my God, for my God and my refuge are you. My God is my mercy, and do not depart, our God, with our strength. Hear me, my God, my prayer. Hallelujah, for he is my God and my savior. My God, and the help of my hope. Lord God, my God, I beseech you, hear us, our God and our savior. Bless the peoples for the God of Sinai, and before the face of the God of Israel. Lord God, blessed God, help us, our God and our savior. Hallelujah. Our God is the God who saved his ways for our God, and for our God in the caves of Israel. And they shall sing to our God, the God of Israel, who gives strength, while he increases for our God. I will praise the name of my God in song. My helper and my savior are you, my God. Be my God and my savior. My God, save me from the hand of sinners.

You, my God, remove far from me. My God, look upon my help; do not abandon me, my God. And I will sing to my God with a harp, the whole of my heart and my flesh, by the God of my salvation. And I will sing to the God of Jacob from your chastisement. The God of Jacob, blessed people whose God is the Lord. Who is a great God like our God? Help us, our God and our Savior, so that the nations may not say, "Where is their God?" O Lord, God of the mighty, what is the God of the mighty like? He has been revealed, and they shall praise the God of Jacob.

Open the God of Jacob, and I will not worship a foreign god, for I am He, the Lord your God, my king and my god. And the God of gods will reveal himself in Zion. O Lord, God of the mighty, hear my prayer, and make me hear the God of Jacob. Our God and our savior, you are our God; you have filled us and given us life, and our God has given us your salvation. Make him who speaks to me hear, O Lord my God, the salvation of your servant. My God, my oppressors stand against me. O Lord, God of my salvation, O Lord, God of the mighty, who is like you? Hallelujah. My God, my helper and my savior, let the light of our God be upon us, and let us dwell in the shadow of the God of heaven, and let them be consumed in the field of our God, and let them proclaim that the Lord our God is righteous, and let them know that the God of Jacob is my God and the help of my hope, O Lord. And let the Lord our God destroy them, and let us sing to our God and our savior, for the Lord our God is great. Hallelujah. And a great king is he over all our gods, for he is our God. See the salvation of our God. O Lord, you hear me. The Lord our God has ascended, for the Lord our God is holy. Know that I am the Lord our God. O Lord my God, how great and abundant you are.

And I will sing to my God, for I am in his presence. He is the Lord God, my God. Save me, Lord God, our helper. O Lord, our God, and righteous God, our God. Who is like the Lord our God before the face of the God of Jacob? So that the nations may not say to us, "Where is your God?" For our God is in heaven above. For our God is merciful. My God, you are, and above you, Hallelujah. And I desire the command of my God. And concerning the house of the Lord my God, I have desired your goodness. Likewise, our eyes are toward the Lord our God.

Blessed is the Lord God, as the Lord God has mercy, and in the righteousness of the God of Jacob, and in the sanctuary of the God of Jacob, within the court of the house of the Lord God. And our God, from among all the gods, is the victor for the God of gods. And I say, "My God, blessed is the Lord God, my God." Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord God. Above you, my king and my God, and I will sing to my God, for I am in his presence. Blessed is the man whose helper is the God of Jacob, and whose trust is upon the Lord God, his God. Your God, Zion, for generations of generations, and to our God, praise and glorify your God, Zion. Hallelujah, he is my God, and I will praise the God of my father, and above, give glory to our God. There is no god like the God who is without you, and there is no righteous one like our God, the God of our fathers. I cried out in my distress to the Lord God, my God. By night, my spirit seeks the Lord God, my God. By night, my spirit seeks the Lord God.

My God, O Lord our God, give us peace, O Lord our God. Purify us for our God on the mountain of his sanctuary. My voice, when I called out to the Lord, hear me, my righteousness, have mercy on me, and hear my prayer. The Lord, may he hear me when I cried out to him, and hear the voice of my prayer. In the morning, hear me, O Lord my God. O Lord, hear my righteousness, and hear my prayer. I cried out because the Lord heard me. Incline your ear toward me, and hear my voice, and hear me in the court of his sanctuary, my voice, and hear me on the day of your festival, when I cried out to him. May he hear me. Hear me, O Lord, my voice which I asked of you. Have mercy on me, and hear me, O Lord, and incline to the voice of my petition which I cried out to you. Blessed is the Lord, because he heard the voice of my petition. And because of this, hear me, O Lord. You, hear me, O Lord my God. Hear me, O Lord, my prayer and my petition, and make my ears hear, and do not cut me off. Hear me and answer me. Incline to the voice of my petition. O Lord, hear us with our ears. Hear me, my people, and I will show you.

And make me hear, O Lord, my prayer. My God, save me by your right hand, and hear me, hear me, my God, my petition, and make me hear my prayer. For you, my God, have heard my prayer. Hear me, O Lord, my prayer, that which I asked of you. Hear us, our God and our Savior. And for this reason, hear me, O Lord, and make me hear the voice of my prayer. Hear me, my faithful Savior. Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is good, for I have trusted quickly. Hear my voice, to the Lord. Hear me, hear me, my people, and I will tell you, O Lord, God of the mighty. Hear my prayer, and make me hear, the God of Jacob. Make your ear hear me, O Lord, and hear me, O Lord, my God. You, hear me, make me hear, O Lord, my prayer. Hallelujah. On the day I call you, quickly hear me. I have loved and I will bless the Lord, who has not failed me. And with the shadow of your wing, cover me, and with your righteousness, I will see your face, and I will be filled with the sight of your glory. Living Lord, and blessed my God. For forgiveness, who will clothe it? And from the pit, who will save your servant? Look upon me and have mercy on me, for I am alone and a stranger, and the sorrow of my heart is great. Save me from my distress. I, indeed, have trusted. Lift them up and do not hide them. I thank you, O Lord, for you have received me, and I will praise you and say to you, my God, you have hidden those who fear you from all distress, and save me.

All my bones say to you, O Lord: Who is like you, who saves the poor? Your mercy is deep, greatly, for man and beast you save, O Lord, for from you is the spring of life. Guard me, O Lord, as the pupil of my eye. Strengthen me, empower me, and give me strength; do not abandon me. And now, who is my hope? Is it not the Lord? Hear me and answer me, and forgive my soul, for I have sinned against you. My food has become my affliction; day and night, be my help and do not cast me out. Send your light among me and your righteousness. You are my king and my God. And may the holiness of your right hand lead you; the exalted sanctuary, full, is your right hand. And the great king is over all gods. Protect me and cleanse me from my sins, my offering and my oblation. Then they will ascend into your altar of incense.

I have trusted in you, O Lord. Now I know that you are my God, who saves my soul from the midst of lions, from the ambush of the enemy. Save my soul; my sins, do you forgive. For the righteous rejoice in the face that is upon us. Why have you cast us down, O Lord? I bow down to you and I sing to the God of Jacob. Mighty, majestic, glorious, who expels the souls of the angels. Who is a god like our God? They have wasted their days in vain, and their years have passed in vanity. He is merciful, he is. Remember for us our transgression. Take up the psalm and give the drum, the psalm, the lyre with the harp. The God of gods in Zion, and our shelter, the God of Jacob. O Lord, our God, do with us the sign of a good world, for in fullness you have broken the sea and the measure which you created. I say to my Lord, you are true, for he knows my name. I was with him. It is good to trust in God. Blessed is the man whom you have anointed, O Lord, and to whom you have shown mercy, your law. For the work of God is wondrous, and all is like a garment that wears out. No, because of our sins which he has done for us. Great is your work, and you have done all with wisdom, and all hope in you. Sing to God and praise his name and their names, their prayer, and he remembered the covenant, and he does not fear an evil thing, and blessed be his name, the name of God.

As the servant of the Lord desired, and all that he sought shall be fulfilled. I have invoked the name of the Lord; I have believed in that which I confessed. To you I offer a sacrifice of praise. To you praise is due, and to you prostration is due. For his mercy has prevailed over us; he has chastised me. The Lord, he is our God; in our midst, where are you, O Lord? Be praised in power. Your name, O Lord, I have invoked. Their refuge and their guide and their protection, as the pupil of the eye. Tell the tale of this hymn: Where are those gods of yours? Let all the heavens rejoice together, and let all the angels of the Lord bow down to him. Merciful one, have mercy on us. He has set the word that was spoken, for by his will I dwell. The slayer who slays the dying, the one who is far from death. Now the king has become the dying. O soul, do not fear, and now by your deed you shall be redeemed, by your deed. For you are the grace of the righteous, for you are the crown of the pure, for you are the greatness of the humble, for you are the strength of the weak, for you are the merciful and forgiving. There, you are for eternity. You are the one who commanded the earth and brought forth Adam in mortal flesh from the earth. You, from within the earth, there is none like you, a second creator who dwells in praise, and in whom all creation believes, for they shrink from the sight of his face. For those who have bowed down in their lives, man is a sinner; you, however, are merciful. And all who invoke the name of the Lord shall be saved in righteousness for your servant Simʿān.

The book of the Seeker is completed in the time of Luke, in the month of Teqemt, in the reign of Gondar, under King Sahlū Ta'ekā, while he was in custody, on the 3rd day of Teqemt.