Shirach — 36

A Prayer for YAHUAH’s People

1 Have mercy upon us, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of all, and look upon us,

2 and cause the fear of you to fall upon all the nations.

3 Lift up your hand against foreign nations and let them see your might.

4 As in us you have been sanctified before them, so in them be thou magnified before us;

5 and let them know you, as we have known that there is no 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH but You alone, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.

6 Show signs anew, and work further wonders; make your hand and your right arm awesome.

7 Rouse your anger and pour out your wrath; destroy the adversary and wipe out the enemy.

8 Hasten the day, and remember the appointed time, and let people recount your mighty deeds.

9 Let him who survives be consumed in the fiery wrath and may those who harm your people meet destruction.

10 Crush the heads of the rulers of the enemy, who say, “There is no one but ourselves.”

11 Gather all the tribes of Ya'aqub, and give them their inheritance, as at the beginning.

12 Have mercy, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, upon the people called by your Name, upon Yashar'AL, whom thou hast likened to a first-born son.

13 Have pity on the city of your sanctuary, Yahushalam, the place of your rest.

14 Fill Ziun with the celebration of your wondrous deeds, and your temple with your Kabad.

15 Bear witness to those whom you did create in the beginning, and fulfil the prophecies spoken in your Name.

16 Reward those who wait for you, and let your Nabyms be found trustworthy.

17 Hearken, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH to the prayer of your servants, according to the Barakah of Aarun for your people, and all who are on the Arath will know that you are 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of the ages.

Concerning Discrimination

18 The stomach will take any food, yet one food is better than another.

19 As the palate tastes the kinds of game, so an intelligent mind detects false words.

20 A perverse mind will cause grief, but a man of experience will pay him back.

21 A woman will accept any man, but one daughter is better than another.

22 A woman’s beauty gladdens the countenance, and surpasses every man's desire.

23 If kindness and humility mark her speech, her husband is not like other men.

24 He who acquires a wife gets his best possession, a helper fit for him and a pillar of support.

25 Where there is no fence, the property will be plundered; and where there is no wife, a man will wander about and sigh.

26 For who will trust a nimble robber that skips from city to city? So who will trust a man that has no home, and lodges wherever night finds him?