Week 15 (Book 7): The Wild Goose Is Saying

 B”H

The wild goose flying in the wilderness, 

When it sees Israel busy with Torah, is saying, 

Fortunate is the people that know the blasting of the shofar; 

A voice cries out: Prepare in the wilderness the way for G-d, 

O Lord, may they walk in the light of Your countenance.

Make straight in the desert a path for our G-d

Go out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze upon King Solomon, 

Then the people of the Lord went down to the cities. 

King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the trees of Lebanon.

Praise! Praise! Deborah.

Its pillars he made of silver, its couch of gold, its curtain of purple, 

For the salvations of my countenance and my G-d.

On the day of his nuptials and on the day of the joy of his heart.

Hope to G-d, for I will yet thank Him 

For the conductor, al tashcheth; of David a michtam, 

Its interior inlaid with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.

People heard, they trembled; 

Upon the crown with which his mother crowned him 

And upon finding its food in the wilderness, it says: 

And Jeshurun became fat and rebelled; 

Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings; 

You grew fat, thick and rotund; 

Blessed is the man who trusts in G-d

[Israel] forsook the G-d Who made them, 

And He sent out arrows and He scattered them, 

And spurned the [Mighty] Rock of their salvation. 

Lightning and He discomfited them. 

When Saul sent and they guarded the house to slay him. 

And Hannah answered and said: 'No, my lord, 

Why are you downcast, my soul, and why do you stir within me? 

I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; 

With murder in my bones, my oppressors have reproached me 

I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, 

By saying to me all day long, "Where is your G-d?" 

But I poured out my soul before Hashem.

Save me from my enemies, my G-d; 

A shudder seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

Strengthen me against those who rise up against me.

And G-d shall be his assurance.