Excerpts from the Book of Isaiah followed by a series of eulogies.

May the Lord, the God of Israel, be blessed. The vision that Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz, saw. Hear, O heaven, and make the earth hear. Abandon your evil deeds; learn to do good. How has it become that the city of Zion is desolate? The word that came to Isaiah, and it came at the end of days. Woe is me, for my soul, for they have plotted evil, for the children of Zion have been scattered. Instead of the fragrance of your pasture, may it be a harvest for you. Woe to those who laugh at sin. Woe, for they have abandoned the word of your command. Light is dark, and dark is light. Woe to those who write evil books and fill the house of his praise with lies. The Seraphim stand around him and say, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord of Hosts." Do you know and do you hear that the great and eternal God is righteous, the giver of life? There is none like you. His name is not known. See, you shall see, and be amazed, O fathers of this city. Save me and my children David, and cast out the thorns from within her. There is none who knows his counsel, and there is none who knows his thought, for the matter of his deed is for our salvation. I say to Zion, "Remember the mercy of the Lord.

And all his grace is righteousness forever for the house of Israel, because he remembered what would be sought: their blood and the wickedness of their ways. Cast away, cast away your neck, O daughter of Zion; you call out to him thus, says the Lord. Their righteousness and their justice are thus, says the Lord Most High, who dwells in the high place. He has established all and consumed all the rebellious, because I am the Lord who loves righteousness, and I give the deeds of the righteous. The children of Zion, honored ones, are adorned with gold, because he clothed me with the garment of life and covered me with the covering of grace. Say to the daughter of Zion: Behold, your king, whose garment is good, who is hidden, magnificent, and mighty, they shall be adorned for me; they shall eat, you shall be amazed; they shall be adorned for me; they shall drink for me, you shall be amazed.