Week 49 (Book 7): The Snail is Saying

 B”H

The Snail is saying, 

Go up this Mount Avarim [to] Mount Nebo, 

Which is in the land of Moab, that is facing Jericho, 

So Moses said to Joshua, Pick men for us, 

With the staff of G-d in my hand. 

And the angel of the Lord came, 

You have lifted me; from the violent man You deliver me.

He gave the vineyard to the keepers; 

For the Lord remembered Hannah, and she conceived 

Joshua did as Moses had told him, to fight against Amalek; 

A stillborn of a mole that does not see the sun

You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.

And see the Land of Canaan, which I am giving 

And go out and fight against Amalek. 

Like the snail that melts away, 

To the children of Israel as a possession, 

And above those that rise against me, 

Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill 

And I said to you, 'I am the Lord your G-d, 

And that brings me forth from my enemies; 

But you have not obeyed me. 

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget [its skill].

Where are Your former acts of kindness, O Lord, 

To be enabled to flee from Midian.

And bore three sons and two daughters. 

How shall we sing the song of the Lord on foreign soil?

Each one brought for the fruit thereof one thousand pieces of silver.

That belonged to Joash the Abiezrite; 

Which You swore to David in your trust 

And Moses, Aaron, and Hur ascended to the top of the hill.

And sat under the oak which was in Ophra, 

And the lad Samuel grew up with the Lord.

Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-Hamon; 

If I do not bring up Jerusalem at the beginning of my joy