Week 40 (Book 7): The Wolf Is Saying

The Wolf Is Saying

You breached all his fences 

You made his fortifications a ruin  

For every matter of iniquity

For the ox, the donkey, the lamb, the garment 

For every lost item which he says, "This is it," 

Some spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate. 

The matter of both of them shall come before the judge

To bind up his princes with his soul 

It came about that on the seventh day 

The people went out to gather, but they did not find 

And he made his elders wise

He who the judge finds guilty shall pay double to the other

Now the sons of Eli were base men 

They knew not the Lord  

He made him the master of his household

And the ruler over all his possessions

The Lord said to Moses, How long will you refuse 

To observe My commandments and My teachings? 

The wisest of her princesses answer her 

She too returns answers to herself

For I raise up My hand to heaven 

And say, 'As I live forever.’ 

Israel came to Egypt and Jacob 

Sojourned in the land of Ham

For You have girded me with strength for the battle 

You have subdued under me those that rose up against me 

I would lead you, I would bring you to the house of my mother

Who instructed me; I would give you to drink

Week 41 (Book 7): The Fox Is Saying

The Fox Is Saying

When I sharpen the blade of My sword
And My hand grasps judgment
Woe to him that builds his house without justice
And his chambers without lawfulness

When (one) cooked the flesh,
With a three-pronged fork in his hand
Are they not finding (and) dividing the spoils
A damsel, two damsels to every man

He gives you bread for two days
Let each man remain in his place
The servant of the priest would come
[And] Aaron whom He chose

And this was the due of the priests from the people

(Whenever) any man would slaughter a sacrifice
That uses his friend’s service without wages
And does not give him for his hire

I will bring vengeance upon My adversaries
And repay those who hate Me
Them that hate me, that I may cut them off
And of my enemies You have given me the back of their necks

All wayfarers have plundered him
He was a disgrace to his neighbors

He turned their heart to hate His people 

To plot against His servants

See that the Lord has given you the Sabbath
Therefore, on the sixth day He sent Moses His servant
His left hand would be under my head, 

And his right hand would embrace me. 

Let no man leave his place on the seventh day

So the people rested on the seventh day

And He made His people very fruitful

And He made it stronger than its adversaries

Week 42 (Book 7): The Hound Is Saying

The Hound Is Saying

Let the righteous rejoice in G-d
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem; 

Why should you awaken, and why should you 

Arouse the love until it is desirous?

And he would thrust into the fire-pot
Or into the pot, or into the cauldron, or into the pan
They looked about, but there was no one to save them
[Even] to the Lord, but He answered them not

Everything which the fork would pick up
The priest would take therewith
I will intoxicate My arrows with blood
And My sword will consume flesh

He turned their water into blood
And it killed their fish
A spoil of dyed garments to Sisera
A spoil of dyed garments of embroidery

So would they do to all Israel
Who came there in Shiloh.
From the blood of the slain and the captives
From the first breach of the enemy

You raised the right hand of his adversaries
You caused all his enemies to rejoice

He sent darkness and it darkened,
And they did not disobey His word.
In order that they see the bread that I fed you
In the desert when I took you out of the land of Egypt 

They placed upon them the words of His signs
And His miracles in the land of Ham.
Moses said, "This is the thing that the Lord commanded
Let one omerful of it be preserved for your generations"

The house of Israel named it manna
And it was like coriander seed
[It was] white, and it tasted like a wafer with honey
Praise is befitting to the straight.

Week 43 (Book 7): The Cat Is Saying

The Cat Is Saying

I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them
And I did not return until they were destroyed.
Sing out praise, O you nations, for His people!
For He will avenge the blood of His servants

Inflict revenge upon His adversaries,
And appease His land [and] His people.
Their land swarmed with frogs
In the rooms of their monarchs.

And [they] would say to the man who slaughtered,
'Give meat to roast for the priest,
And he will not take from you cooked meat, but raw.  
Dyed garments of embroidery for the neck of the spoiler.'      

If you rise up like a vulture, and place your nest among the stars,
From there I shall bring you down, says G-d.
Then I ground them as the dust of the earth,
As the mud of the streets I did tread upon them, I did stamp them down.

You even turned back the sharp edge of his sword,

And You did not raise him up in battle.
So may perish all Your enemies, O Lord;
But they that love Him [are] as the sun when it goes forth in its might.

He commanded and a mixture of noxious beasts came,
Lice throughout all their boundary.
Also, before they would make the fat smoke,
And the servant of the priest would come,

And Moses said to Aaron, take one jug and put there an omerful of manna,
And deposit it before the Lord to be preserved for your generations.
He made their rains into hail, flaming fire in their land.

Who is this coming up from the desert, embracing her beloved?

As the Lord had commanded Moses,
Aaron deposited it before the testimony to be preserved.

Under the apple tree I aroused you; there your mother was in travail with you; 

There she that bore you was in travail.

Week 44 (Book 7): The Mouse Is Saying

The Mouse Is Saying

And the children of Israel did that which displeased the Lord
And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years
You are just for all that comes upon me
For You have acted truthfully, and I have been wicked

And (if) the man said to him, 'Let them make the fat smoke now
and (then) take for yourself, as your soul desires'
He spoke and locusts came, and nibbling locusts without number
The omer is one tenth of an ephah

And he would say, 'No, but now you shall give
And if not, I shall take by force'
And they consumed all grass in their land
And they consumed the produce of their soil

Its coals are coals of fire of a great flame!
And You have allowed me to escape
From the contenders among my people
And the land rested forty years

And the children of Israel ate the manna for forty years
Until they came to an inhabited land
They ate the manna until they came 

To the border of the land of Canaan

You have brought an end to his shining
And his throne You have cast down to earth
And it struck their vines and their fig trees
And it broke the trees of their boundary

And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song

Into the ears of the people he and Hoshea the son of Nun
You shall keep me as head of nations
A people whom I have not known serve me

Place me like a seal on your heart, liked a seal on your arm,
For love is as strong as death, zeal is as strong as the grave;

I shall exalt you, G-d, for You have uplifted me
and You have not let my enemies rejoice over me.