Yea, off-rolled—as foretold—clouds impure,

Zion’s folk, free of yoke, O assure

‘Forgiven!’

YOMTOB OF YORK, 1190.
(Trans. I. Zangwill.)


תֶר מַלְכוּת
CONFESSION

SHAME-STRICKEN, bending low,

My God, I come before Thee, for I know

That even as Thou on high

Exalted art in power and majesty,