Amidah Sources (Weekday)

(17) O Lord, open my lips, and let my mouth declare Your praise.

(15) And God said further to Moses, “Thus shall you speak to the Israelites: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you: This shall be My name forever, This My appellation for all eternity.

(18) O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, remember this to the eternal credit of the thoughts of Your people’s hearts, and make their hearts constant toward You.

(17) For the LORD your God is God supreme and Lord supreme, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who shows no favor and takes no bribe.

(19) He blessed him, saying, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. ["שָׁמַ֥יִם וָאָֽרֶץ" ("heaven and earth") interchangeable with "הַכּל" ("all/everything").]

(8) Yet He saved them, as befits His name, to make known His might. ["יּוֹשִׁיעֵם" ("saved them") related to "מֵבִיא גואֵל" ("brings a redeemer"). Also flows into next blessing (Gevurot).]

(16) The LORD is king for ever and ever; the nations will perish from His land.

(11) Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me; O LORD, be my help!”

(22) Turn to Me and be saved, All the ends of earth! For I am God, and there is none else. [The next line of Isaiah, 45:23 ("כִּי־לִי֙ תִּכְרַ֣ע כָּל־בֶּ֔רֶךְ" ("To me every knee shall bend") dovetails with the blessing that immediately follows, where we bend our knees.]

(1) Some time later, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision. He said, “Fear not, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great.”

(17) For the LORD your God is God supreme and Lord supreme, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who shows no favor and takes no bribe.

(19) Oh, let Your dead revive! Let corpses arise! Awake and shout for joy, You who dwell in the dust!— For Your dew is like the dew on fresh growth; You make the land of the shades come to life.

(9) Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, O mortal! Say to the wind: Thus said the Lord GOD: Come, O wind, from the four winds, and breathe into these slain, that they may live again.” [This passage connects the bringing of the wind to the resurrection of the dead, linking the declaration of G-d's power to bring wind (and rain) with His power to resurrect. [See also https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-valley-of-dry-bones-and-the-resurrection-of-the-dead).]

(6) The LORD deals death and gives life, Casts down into Sheol and raises up. [Scriptural source for all 5 occurrences of this phrase or close variant thereof.]

(39) See, then, that I, I am He; There is no god beside Me. I deal death and give life; I wounded and I will heal: None can deliver from My hand.

Rava raises a contradiction. It is written: “I will kill and I will bring to life” (Deuteronomy 32:39), indicating that God is capable of reviving the dead. And it is written immediately afterward: “I wounded and I will heal,” which indicates that God will only heal the wounded. Rather, it should be understood: The Holy One, Blessed be He, is saying: What I kill, I bring to life, indicating that God revives the dead. And then what I wounded, I will heal.

(1) Who is this coming from Edom, in stained garments from Bozrah— Who is this, majestic in attire, Pressing forward in His great might? “It is I, who contend victoriously, Powerful to save.”

(14) The LORD supports all who fall, and straightens all who are bent.

(3) He forgives all your sins, heals all your diseases. [And see Deut. 32:39 above ("מָחַ֙צְתִּי֙ וַאֲנִ֣י אֶרְפָּ֔א", "I wounded and I will heal").]

(7) who secures justice for the wronged, gives bread to the hungry. The LORD frees the bound;

(2) Many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, others to reproaches, to everlasting abhorrence.

(21) On that day I will cause a horn to sprout from the House of Israel [cf. JPS 1985] , and you shall be vindicated among them. And they shall know that I am the LORD.

[Note: "Horn" would refer to "horn of [G-d's] salvation" ("קֶֽרֶן־יִ֝שְׁעִ֗י"), Psalms 18:3.]

(2) Speak to the whole Israelite community and say to them: You shall be holy, for holy am I, the LORD your God.

(2) Ascribe to the LORD the glory of His name; bow down to the LORD, majestic in holiness.

(3) They praise Your name as great and awesome; He is holy! [see also Psalms 99:5]

(2) Every day will I bless You and praise Your name forever and ever.

[Note: "סֶּלָה" in this context is interchangeable with "לְעוֹלָ֥ם וָעֶֽד"; see, e.g., Targum to Psalm 84:5, translating "סֶּלָה" as "לְעָלְמִין", i.e., "forever."]

(16) And the LORD of Hosts is exalted by judgment, The Holy God proved holy by retribution.

(15) I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

(2) The spirit of the LORD shall alight upon him: A spirit of wisdom and insight, A spirit of counsel and valor, A spirit of devotion and reverence for the LORD.

[Note that the Sefardic Nusach states, "וְחָנֵּֽנוּ מֵאִתְּךָ חָכְמָה בִּינָה וָדָֽעַת", even more closely paralleling Isaiah 11:2. Note also that this passage in Isaiah refers to the character of the future messiah; thus, the thematic connection between personal merit (the focus of Blessings 4-6) and national merit sufficient to usher in a redeemer (Blessing 7) is underscored.]

(15) And I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will pasture you with knowledge and skill.

(4) Return us, O God; show Your favor [lit. "Your face"] that we may be delivered.

(8) And I will purge them of all the sins which they committed against Me, and I will pardon all the sins which they committed against Me, by which they willfully transgressed against Me.

(17) ... But You, being a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, long-suffering and abounding in faithfulness, did not abandon them. [Cf. Exodus 34:6.]

(153) See my affliction and rescue me, for I have not neglected Your teaching. (154) Contend for my strife and redeem me; preserve me according to Your promise. [Citation provided in Artscroll Siddur.]

(34) Their Redeemer is strong, His name is LORD of Hosts. He will contend for their strife — So as to give rest to the earth, And unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon. [Note: The link here with רִיבָ֣ה רִ֭יבִי is direct, and this verse supplies the key verbiage for the remainder of this blessing ["גּואֵל חָזָק אָתָּה"].]

(11) For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause with thee. [JPS 1917.]

(7) Thus said the LORD, The Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, To the despised one, To the abhorred nations, To the slave of rulers: Kings shall see and stand up; Nobles, and they shall prostrate themselves— To the honor of the LORD, who is faithful, To the Holy One of Israel who chose you.

(14) Heal me, O LORD, and let me be healed; Save me, and let me be saved; For You are my praise.

(3) He forgives all your sins, heals all your diseases.

(21) I will ordain My blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it shall yield produce sufficient for three years. [Note: This correlation is tentative as the Torah verse refers specifically to the sabbatical year.]

(11) יהוה will give you abounding prosperity in your issue from the womb, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil in the land that יהוה swore to your fathers to assign to you.

(12) You crown the year with Your goodness; fatness is distilled in Your paths;

(1) And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said unto Ahab: 'As the LORD, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be [lit. "if there will be"] dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.' [Tr. JPS 1917.]

(1) Much later, in the third year, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go, appear before Ahab; then I will send rain upon the earth.”

(13) And in that day, a great shofar shall be sounded; and the strayed who are in the land of Assyria and the dispersed who are in the land of Egypt shall come and worship the LORD on the holy mount, in Jerusalem.

(12) He will raise the banner to the nations, And assemble the dispersed of Israel, And the dispersed of Judah He will gather from the four corners of the earth. [Citation provided in Artscroll Siddur.]

(2) The LORD rebuilds Jerusalem; He gathers in the exiles of Israel.

(10) And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, And come with shouting to Zion, Crowned with joy everlasting. They shall attain joy and gladness, While sorrow and groaning flee.

(21) And I will espouse you forever: I will espouse you with righteousness and judgment, And with loving kindness and mercy.

(6) For the Lord knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the wicked shall perish. [Note that the "righteous" ("צַדִּיקִ֑ים") are the subject of the next blessing.]

(8) Your hand shall prevail over your foes, And all your enemies shall be cut down!

(19) For lo! That day is at hand, burning like an oven. All the arrogant and all the doers of evil shall be straw, and the day that is coming—said the LORD of Hosts—shall burn them to ashes and leave of them neither stock nor boughs.

(35) When the Ark was to set out, Moses would say: Advance, O יהוה ! May Your enemies be scattered, And may Your foes flee before You!

(11) “And I will requite to the world its evil, And to the wicked their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant And humble the haughtiness of tyrants.

(21) And your people, all of them righteous, Shall possess the land for all time; They are the shoot that I planted, My handiwork in which I glory. [See also Psalms 1:6 re: "righteous", referenced above.]

(2) In that day, The radiance of the LORD Will lend beauty and glory, And the splendor of the land, [Will give] dignity and majesty, To the survivors of Israel.

(18) And Leah said, “God has given me my reward for having given my maid to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.

(10) Who among you reveres the LORD And heeds the voice of His servant?— Though he walk in darkness, And have no light, Let him trust in the name of the LORD, And rely upon his God.

(20) Protect me and save me; let me not be ashamed, for I have sought refuge in You.

(19) They confronted me on the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support. (See also Isaiah 50:10.)

(7) Blessed is he who trusts in the LORD, Whose trust is the LORD alone.

(16) O Lord, as befits Your abundant benevolence, let Your wrathful fury turn back from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a mockery among all who are around us.

(3) Thus said the LORD: I have returned to Zion, and I will dwell in Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be called the City of Faithfulness, and the mount of the LORD of Hosts the Holy Mount.

(6) In token of abundant authority And of peace without limit Upon David’s throne and kingdom, That it may be firmly established In justice and in equity Now and evermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts Shall bring this to pass.

(2) The LORD builds Jerusalem; He gathers in the exiles of Israel.

(15) In those days and at that time, I will cause to sprout a true branch of David’s line, and he shall do what is just and right in the land.

(3) O LORD, my crag, my fortress, my rescuer, my God, my rock in whom I seek refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, my haven.

(18) For You are their strength in which they glory; our horn is exalted through Your favor.

(7) We cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our plight, our misery, and our oppression.

(14) As for me, may my prayer come to You, O LORD, at a favorable moment; O God, in Your abundant faithfulness, answer me with Your sure deliverance.

(3) I turned my face to the Lord God, devoting myself to prayer and supplication, in fasting, in sackcloth and ashes. [Compare "I turned my face to ... God" to "From Your face ... do not turn us away."]

(11) So is the word that issues from My mouth: It does not come back to Me unfulfilled [also "empty-handed"], But performs what I purpose, Achieves what I sent it to do.

(16) Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place that He will choose, on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the Feast of Weeks, and on the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed. [We are saying, just as G-d does not permit us to appear before Him empty-handed, so too He should not turn us away empty-handed.]

(3) O Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee doth all flesh come. [JPS 1917]

(30) And when You hear the supplications which Your servant and Your people Israel offer toward this place, give heed in Your heavenly abode—give heed and pardon. [From the Prayer of Solomon.]

(28) and I chose them from among all the tribes of Israel to be My priests—to ascend My altar, to burn incense, [and] to carry an ephod before Me—and I assigned to your father’s house all offerings by fire of the Israelites.

(3) Thus said the LORD: I have returned to Zion, and I will dwell in Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be called the City of Faithfulness, and the mount of the LORD of Hosts the Holy Mount. (See "My People's Prayer Book: The Amidah," p. 141 ("It is likely that the opening of this prayer, with its verbs tashuv ("you will return") and tishkon ("dwell"), reflects the prophecy of consolation from Zech. 8:3).)

(13) Now, God, we gratefully thank You and extol Your glorious name.

(15) And God said further to Moses, “Thus shall you speak to the Israelites: The LORD, the God of your fathers...

(5) Though all the peoples walk Each in the names of its gods, We will walk In the name of the LORD our God Forever and ever.

(3) O LORD, my crag, my fortress, my rescuer, my God, my rock in whom I seek refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, my haven.

(13) Then we, Your people, the flock You shepherd, shall glorify You forever; for all time we shall tell Your praises.

(18) Evening, morning, and noon, I complain and moan, and He hears my voice.

(2) O LORD, be gracious to us! It is to You we have placed our hope; Be their arm every morning, Also our deliverance in time of stress.

(44) I will always obey Your teaching, forever and ever.

(13) Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name, His alone, is sublime; His splendor covers heaven and earth.

(20) Blessed is the Lord. Day by day He supports us, God, our salvation. Selah.

(26) The LORD bestow His favor upon you and grant you peace! [Directly follows the priestly blessing thematically and chronologically.]

(4) He redeems your life from the Pit, surrounds you with loving kindness and mercy.

(38) [In any plague and in any disease,] in any prayer or supplication offered by any person among all Your people Israel—each of whom knows his own affliction—when he spreads his palms toward this House, [... pardon and take action!]

(25) The LORD make His face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. [JPS 1917]

(8) “He has told you, O man, what is good, And what the LORD requires of you: Only to do justice And to love goodness, And to walk modestly with your God;

(1) My son, do not forget my teaching [Torah], But let your mind retain my commandments; (2) For they will bestow on you length of days, Years of life and well-being.

(11) May the LORD grant strength to His people; may the LORD bestow on His people peace. (Also cf. Num. 6:26.)

(15) May the words of my mouth and the prayer of my heart be acceptable to You, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.

When Mar, son of Ravina, would conclude his prayer, he said the following:
My God, guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking deceit. To those who curse me let my soul be silent and may my soul be like dust to all. Open my heart to Your Torah, and may my soul pursue your mitzvot. And save me from a bad mishap, from the evil inclination, from a bad woman, and from all evils that suddenly come upon the world. And all who plan evil against me, swiftly thwart their counsel, and frustrate their plans. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart find favor before You, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

(2) Dominion and dread are His; He imposes peace in His heights.

(5) Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

(8) ... Similarly it says, “O maidens of Zion, go forth and gaze upon King Solomon wearing the crown that his mother gave him on his wedding day, on the day of the gladness of his heart” (Song of Songs 3:11). “On his wedding day”: this refers to Matan Torah (the Giving of the Torah). “And on the day of the gladness of his heart”: this refers to the building of the Temple; may it be rebuilt speedily in our days, Amen.

MISHNAH: [Grapes from] a fourth-year vineyard have to be brought to Jerusalem from a distance up to a day’s march.... Rebbi Yose says, this condition was introduced when the Temple was destroyed, viz., that one would return to the previous situation if the Temple would be rebuilt soon, in our days....

(4) Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of yore and in the years of old.