Prayer for the Rescue of the People of Israel!

Prayer for the rescue of the Nation of Israel from the hands of those who seek their lives

Master of the World, Merciful and Gracious One, full of compassion, our hearts are poured out like water over the blood of Israel that flows like water. Victor over all victors, Mighty over all mighty ones, Strong over all strong ones. Please look upon our affliction and fight our battles. See that we have become plunder and a mockery in the eyes of all the nations, and they have abandoned us to slaughter, burning, murder, and stoning. Every single day, the nations of the world incite against us wolves of prey thirsty for blood, and they sentence us to slaughter, burning, strangulation, and stoning, and the curse of each day is greater than the one before it.

It is already close to two thousand years that we have walked from exile to exile, into captivity, hunger, and disgrace. In the days of the Inquisition, they burned us at the stake, and in the days of the Holocaust, they put us into ovens of fire. Yet, the nations of the world are not yet satiated with our flesh and blood; they still hunt for the blood of Israel and declare wars of annihilation and destruction against us, similar to the crusades of bloodshed that occurred during the era of Rashi, Rabbeinu Tam, and the Baalei Tosafot. The blood of Israel flows in the streets day and night, at all hours of the day. From every corner, we hear the screams of widows, orphans, and bereaved parents, and almost entire families are wiped out week after week.

Death has ascended through our windows, and our steps are restricted from walking in our streets. Every heart melts like water, and our wounds are fatal. "For it has come unto Judah; it has touched the gate of my people, unto Jerusalem. For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a mourning like the ostriches" (Micah 1:8-9).

"O God, do not remain silent; do not hold Your peace, and do not be still, O God. For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, and those who hate You have lifted up their head. They plot deviously against Your people, and take counsel against Your hidden ones. They have said: 'Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.' For they have consulted together with one consent; against You do they make a covenant: The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assyria also is joined with them; they have been an arm to the children of Lot. Selah. Do to them as to Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon; who were destroyed at En-dor; they became as dung for the earth. Make their nobles like Orev and Ze'ev; and like Zevach and Tzalmuna, all their princes; who said: 'Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God.' O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind. As the fire that burns the forest, and as the flame that sets the mountains ablaze; so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm. Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Your name, O Hashem. Let them be ashamed and terrified forever; let them be abashed and perish; that they may know that You alone, whose name is Hashem, are the Most High over all the earth" (Psalms 83).

"For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [elsewhere]; I had rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For Hashem God is a sun and a shield; Hashem gives grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. O Hashem of hosts, praiseworthy is the man that trusts in You" (Psalms 84).

And fulfill in us the verses: "'Comfort, comfort My people,' says your God. 'Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call out to her, that her time of service is fulfilled, that her iniquity is expiated, that she has received of Hashem's hand double for all her sins.' A voice calls out: 'Clear in the wilderness the way of Hashem, make plain in the desert a highway for our God.' ... Get you up to a high mountain, O herald of Zion; lift up your voice with strength, O herald of Jerusalem; lift it up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Judah: 'Behold your God!' Behold, the Lord Hashem will come as a Mighty One, and His arm will rule for Him; behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him. Even as a shepherd that feeds his flock, that gathers the lambs in his arm, and carries them in his bosom, and gently leads the nursing ewes. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the rugged shall be made level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of Hashem shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Hashem has spoken it" (Isaiah 40).

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