Mo’oz Tsur Yeshu’osi

(A Chanukah Hymn)

MIGHTY, praised beyond compare,

Rock of my salvation,

Build again my house of pray’r

For Thy habitation!

Haste my restoration; let a ransomed nation

Joyful sing

To its King

Psalms of dedication!

Woe was mine in Egypt-land

(Tyrant kings enslaved me)

Till Thy mighty, outstretched Hand

From oppression saved me.

Pharaoh, rash pursuing, vowed my swift undoing;

Soon, his host

That proud boast

’Neath the waves was rueing!

To Thy Holy Hill, the way

Mad’st Thou clear before me;

With false gods I went astray—

Foes to exile bore me.

Torn from all I cherished, almost had I perished;

Babylon fell,

Zerubabel

Bad’st Thou to restore me!

Then the vengeful Haman wrought

Subtly to betray me;

In his snare himself he caught—

He that plann’d to slay me.

(Haled from Esther’s palace, hanged on his own gallows!)

Seal and ring

Persia’s king

Gave Thy servant zealous.

When the brave Asmonèans broke

Javan’s chain in sunder,

Through the holy oil, Thy folk

Didst Thou show a wonder.

Ever full remain-ed the vessel unprofan-ed;

These eight days,

Lights and praise

Therefore, were ordain-ed.

Lord, Thy Holy Arm make bare,

Speed my restoration;

Be my martyr’s blood Thy care—

Judge each guilty nation.

Long is my probation; sore my tribulation;

Bid, from Heaven,

Thy shepherds seven,

Haste to my salvation!

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