My God, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare Your praise.

First Blessing: Avot – God of our History

Blessed are You, our God and God of our ancestors, God of Abraham, God of Sarah, God of Isaac, God of Rebecca, and God of Jacob, God of Rachel and God of Leah, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, God beyond, generous in love and kindness, and possessing all. You remember the good deeds of those before us, and therefore in love bring rescue to the generations, for such is Your being. The Sovereign who helps and saves and shields. Blessed are you God, who shields Abraham, who remembers Sarah.

Second Blessing: Gevurot – God of Might

You are the endless power that renews life beyond death; You are the greatness that saves, causing the wind blow and the rain fall (said in winter) / causing the dew to fall (said in summer). You care for the living with loving kindness. You renew life beyond death with unending mercy. You supports the falling, and heal the sick. You release the bound, and keep faith with those who sleep in the dust. Who is like You, mighty One! And who can be compared to You, a Sovereign who brings death, restores life, and renews salvation? You are faithful to renew life beyond death. Blessed are You God, who renews life beyond death.

Third Blessing: Kedushah – God of Holiness

You are holy and Your name is holy, and those who seek holiness praise You day by day. Blessed are You, the holy God.

Fourth Blessing: Binah – Insight

You graciously bestow knowledge upon man and teach mortals understanding. Favour us with the knowledge, understanding and discernment that come from You. Blessed are You God, who graciously bestows knowledge.

Fifth Blessing: Teshuvah – Repentence

Turn us back to Your teaching, our Creator, and draw us near to Your service, our Sovereign. Bring us back to Your presence in whole-hearted repentance. Blessed are You God, who desires penitence.

Sixth Blessing: Selichah – Forgiveness

Pardon us, our Creator, for we have sinned; forgive us, our Sovereign, for we have transgressed; for You are a good and forgiving God. Blessed are You God, who is generous in forgiveness.

Seventh Blessing: Geulah – Redemption

Look upon our affliction and defend our cause, and rescue us quickly for the sake Your Name, for You God are the mighty redeemer. Blessed are You God, Redeemer of Israel.

Eighth Blessing: Refuah – Healing

Heal us, God, and we will be healed; help us and we will be saved; for it is You we praise. Send relief and healing for all our wounds; for You, Almighty Sovereign, are a faithful and merciful healer. Blessed are You God, who heals the sick of His people Israel.

Ninth Blessing: Birkat Hashanah – Blessing of the Year

Bless this year, our Living God, and may all that it brings be good for us; send dew and rain as a blessing (in winter) / send Your blessings (in summer) over the face of the earth, bring life-giving water to all the earth, satisfy all the world with your goodness, and bless our years as good years. Blessed are You God, who blesses the years.

Tenth Blessing: Kibbutz Galuyot – Ingathering of the Exiled

Sound the great shofar for our freedom; raise a banner to restore all of us who experience exile. May the voice of liberty and freedom be heard throughout the four corners of the earth for all its inhabitants, for You are a God who redeems and Rescues. Blessed are You God, who sustains Your people Israel.

Eleventh Blessing: Mishpat – Justice

Restore Your judgment of righteousness in the world. Remove from us sorrow and pain, and rule over us with kindness and compassion, with righteousness and justice. Blessed are You God, Sovereign who loves righteousness and justice.

Twelfth Blessing: Birkat Haminim – An End to Evil

And for slander let there be no hope, and may all evil come to nothing, and remove the reign of violence and terror speedily in our days. Blessed are You God, who makes evil pass away from the earth.

Thirteenth Blessing: Tsadikim – Righteousness

To the righteous, the pious, and the honest, to those who join us in righteousness, and to us ourselves, be merciful our God. Grant ample reward to all who truly trust You, and place our lot among them; may we never be shamed, for we have put our trust in You. Blessed are You God, the support and security of the righteous.

Fourteenth Blessing: Yerushalayim – Jerusalem

Turn in mercy to Jerusalem and may Your presence dwell within it. Rebuild it as you have prophesied, then is shall indeed be called ‘city of righteousness, faithful city.’ Help us establish it as a place worthy of prayer for all peoples. Blessed are You God, who builds Jerusalem.

Fifteenth Blessing: David – A Messianic Age

Bring forth soon a new flourishing from Your servant David, a flowering of righteousness and a doorway of hope, for we wait and work for Your salvation. Blessed are You God, who makes the power of salvation flourish.

Sixteenth Blessing: Shema Kolenu – Hear Our Prayers

Hear our voice, our God, source of mercy. Have compassion upon us and accept our prayers in mercy and favor. For You are a God who listens to our prayers and knows our needs. Do not turn us away empty from You, our Sovereign, for You hear the prayer of everyone. Blessed are You God, who hears prayer.

Seventeenth Blessing: Avodah – Worship

Look with favor, God, on Your people Israel and listen to their prayers. In Your great mercy delight in us so that Your presence may rest upon Zion. Our eyes look forward to Your return to Zion in mercy! Blessed are You God, ever restoring Your presence to Zion.

Eighteenth Blessing: Modim – Thanksgiving

We declare with gratitude that You are our God and the God of our ancestors.  You are the strength of our life, our rock, and the shield of our salvation that saves us. In every generation we will give thanks to You and recount Your praise, evening, morning and noon, for our lives which are committed into Your hand, for our souls which are entrusted to You, for the signs of Your presence which are with us daily, and for Your continual wonders and goodness. You are goodness itself, for Your mercy has no end. Your are mercy itself, for Your love has no limit. Forever will we place our hope in You. And for all these things, may Your name, our Sovereign, be continually blessed and exalted forever and all time. May every living thing forever thank You; may they praise and bless Your great Name in truth for You are the God who saves and helps us. Blessed are You God, known as goodness, whom it is right to praise.

The Nineteenth Blessing: Shalom – Peace

Set true peace upon Your people Israel forever. For You are the Source of all peace, and in Your eyes it is good to bless Your people Israel at every time and in every hour with your peace. Blessed are You God, who blesses His people Israel with peace.

Closing Meditation

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before You, God, my Strength and my Redeemer. My God, guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking deceitfully. Let my soul be silent to those who curse me; let my soul be humble and at peace with all. Open my heart to Your teaching, and give me the will to practice it. May the plans and schemes of those who seek my harm come to nothing. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before You, God, my Strength and my Redeemer.

May the Maker of peace in the highest bring this peace upon us and upon all Israel and upon all the world.