Pesukei Dezimra is part of the Shacharit (Weekday) service of the traditional weekday siddur. The full Hebrew text with English translation appears below; open it in the free interactive siddur to follow along.
For the sake of the union of the Holy One, blessed be He, with His Shechinah, to unite the Name yud-kay with vav-kay in a perfect union in the name of all Israel.
Hold the two front tzitzit while reciting this blessing; at its conclusion, pass them over the eyes and kiss them.
Blessed is He who spoke, and the world came into being; blessed is He; blessed is He who says and does; blessed is He who decrees and fulfills; blessed is He who creates the universe; blessed is He who has compassion on the earth; blessed is He who has compassion on the creatures; blessed is He who rewards well those who fear Him; blessed is He who lives forever and exists eternally; blessed is He who redeems and saves; blessed is His Name. Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, benevolent God; merciful Father, who is praised by the mouth of His people, exalted and glorified by the tongue of His pious ones and His servants, and by the songs of David Your servant. We will extol You, Lord our God, with praises and songs; exalt, laud, and glorify You, proclaim You King, and mention Your Name, our King, our God. You are the only One—the Life of [all] the worlds, O King; praised and glorified is His great Name forever and ever. Blessed are You Lord, King who is extolled with praises.
This psalm is omitted on Erev Pesach, Chol Hamoed Pesach, and Erev Yom Kippur.
A psalm for the thanksgiving-offering. Let all the earth sing in jubilation to the Lord. Serve the Lord with joy; come before Him with exultation. Know that the Lord is God; He has made us and we are His, His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with gratitude, His courtyards with praise; give thanks to Him, bless His Name. For the Lord is good; His kindness is everlasting, and His faithfulness is for all generations.
May the glory of the Lord be forever; may the Lord find delight in His works. May the Name of the Lord be blessed from now and to all eternity. From the rising of the sun to its setting, the Name of the Lord is praised. The Lord is high above all nations; His glory transcends the heavens. O Lord, Your Name is forever; Your remembrance, Lord, is throughout all generations. The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, and His kingship has dominion over all. The heavens will rejoice, the earth will exult, and among the nations they will proclaim, “The Lord reigns!” The Lord is King, the Lord was King, the Lord shall be King for ever and ever. The Lord reigns for all eternity; the nations have vanished from His land. The Lord has annulled the counsel of nations; He has foiled the schemes of peoples. Many are the thoughts in the heart of man, but it is the counsel of the Lord that endures. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of His heart throughout all generations. For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it endured. Indeed, the Lord has chosen Zion; He desired it for His dwelling place. For God has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel as His beloved treasure. Indeed, the Lord will not abandon His people, nor will He forsake His heritage. And He, being compassionate, pardons iniquity, and does not destroy; time and again He turns away His anger, and does not arouse all His wrath. Deliver us, O Lord; may the King answer us on the day we call.
Touch the hand tefillin while saying You open Your hand, and the head tefillin at and satisfy, then touch the fingertips to the lips. Recite this verse with concentration.
Happy are those who dwell in Your House; they will yet praise You forever. Happy is the people whose lot is thus; happy is the people whose God is the Lord. A psalm of praise by David: I will exalt You, my God the King, and bless Your Name forever. Every day I will bless You, and extol Your Name forever. The Lord is great and exceedingly exalted, and there is no limit to His greatness. One generation to another will laud Your works, and tell of Your mighty acts. I will speak of the splendor of Your glorious majesty and of Your wondrous deeds. They will proclaim the might of Your awesome acts, and I will recount Your greatness. They will express the remembrance of Your abounding goodness, and sing of Your righteousness. The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and of great kindness. The Lord is good to all, and His mercies extend over all His works. Lord, all Your works will give thanks to You, and Your pious ones will bless You. They will declare the glory of Your kingdom, and tell of Your strength. To make known to men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom. Your kingship is a kingship over all worlds, and Your dominion is throughout all generations. The Lord supports all who fall, and makes erect all who are bent. The eyes of all look expectantly to You, and You give them their food at the proper time. You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and benevolent in all His deeds. The Lord is close to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear Him, hears their cry, and delivers them. The Lord watches over all who love Him, and will destroy all the wicked. My mouth will utter the praise of the Lord, and let all flesh bless His holy Name forever. And we will bless the Lord from now to eternity. Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will sing to the Lord with my soul; I will chant praises to my God with my [entire] being. Do not place your trust in munificent benefactors, in mortal man, for he does not have the ability to bring deliverance. When his spirit departs, he returns to his earth; on that very day, his plans come to naught. Fortunate is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope rests upon the Lord his God. He makes the heavens, the earth, the sea and all that is in them; He keeps His promise faithfully forever. He renders justice to the oppressed; He gives food to the hungry; the Lord releases those who are bound. The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; the Lord makes erect those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous. The Lord watches over the strangers; He gives strength to the orphan and the widow; and He thwarts the way of the wicked. The Lord shall reign forever, your God, O Zion, throughout all generations. Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord. Sing to our God for He is good, for He is pleasant; praise befits Him. The Lord is the rebuilder of Jerusalem; He will gather the dispersed of Israel. He heals the broken-hearted, and binds up their wounds. He counts the number of the stars; He gives a name to each of them. Great is our Master and abounding in might; His understanding is beyond reckoning. The Lord strengthens the humble; He casts the wicked down to the ground. Lift your voices to the Lord in gratitude; sing to our God with a harp. He covers the heaven with clouds; He prepares rain for the earth, and makes grass grow upon the mountains. He gives to the cattle their food, to the young ravens which cry to Him. He does not desire [those who place their trust in] the strength of the horse, nor does He want those who rely upon the thighs [swiftness] of man. He desires those who fear Him, those who long for His kindness. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; Zion, extol your God. For He has strengthened the bolts of your gates; He has blessed your children in your midst. He has made peace within your borders; He satiates you with the finest of wheat. He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs most swiftly. He gives snow like fleece; He scatters frost like ashes. He hurls His ice like morsels; who can withstand His cold? He sends forth His word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow. He tells His words to Jacob, His statutes and ordinances to Israel. He has not done so for other nations, and they do not know ordinances. Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise Him in the celestial heights. Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His hosts. Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all the shining stars. Praise Him, heavens of heavens, and the waters that are above the heavens. Let them praise the Name of the Lord, for He commanded and they were created. He has established them forever, for all time; He issued a decree, and it shall not be transgressed. Praise the Lord from the earth, sea-monsters and all [that dwell in] the depths; fire and hail, snow and vapor, stormy wind carrying out His command; the mountains and all hills, fruit-bearing trees and all cedars; the beasts and all cattle, creeping things and winged fowl; kings of the earth and all nations, rulers and all judges of the land; young men as well as maidens, elders together with young lads. Let them praise the Name of the Lord, for His Name is sublimely transcendent, it is unto Himself; [only] its radiance is upon the earth and heavens. He shall raise the glory of His people, [increase] the praise of all His pious ones, the children of Israel, the people close to Him. Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord. Sing to the Lord a new song; [recount] His praise in the assembly of the pious. Israel will rejoice in its Maker; the children of Zion will delight in their King. They will praise His Name with dancing; they will sing to Him with the drum and harp. For the Lord desires His people; He will adorn the humble with salvation. The pious will exult in glory; they will sing upon their beds. The exaltation of God is in their throat, and a double-edged sword in their hand, to bring retribution upon the nations, punishment upon the peoples; to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with iron fetters; to execute upon them the prescribed judgment; it shall be a glory for all His pious ones. Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord. Praise God in His holiness; praise Him in the firmament of His strength. Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him according to His abundant greatness. Praise Him with the call of the shofar; praise Him with harp and lyre. Praise Him with timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and flute. Praise Him with resounding cymbals; praise Him with clanging cymbals. Let every being that has a soul praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let every being that has a soul praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.
Blessed is the Lord forever, Amen and Amen. Blessed is the Lord from Zion, who dwells in Jerusalem; praise the Lord. Blessed is the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone performs wonders. Blessed is His glorious Name forever, and let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen.
And David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly, and David said: Blessed are You Lord, God of our father Israel, in all the realms of the universe. Lord, Yours is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty; for all in heaven and on the earth [is Yours]. Lord, Yours is the kingship and You are exalted, supreme over all rulers. Wealth and honor come from You, and You rule over all; in Your hand are might and power, and it is in Your hand to grant greatness and strength to all. And now, our God, we give thanks to You, and praise Your glorious Name. Let [Israel] bless Your glorious Name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. You alone are the Lord; You have made the heavens, the heavens of heavens, and all their hosts, the earth and all thereon, the seas and all therein; You give life to them all, and the hosts of the heavens bow before You. You are the Lord, the God, who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur Kasdim, and gave him the name Abraham. And You found his heart faithful before You
and You made a Covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites and the Girgashites, to give it to his descendants; and You fulfilled Your words, for You are righteous. You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry at the Sea of Reeds. And You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for You knew that they acted wickedly toward them; and You have made a name for Yourself to this day. You split the sea before them, and they went through the midst of the sea on dry land; and You hurled their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters.
And the Lord delivered Israel on that day from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Israel beheld the mighty hand which the Lord wielded against the Egyptians, and the people feared the Lord, and believed in the Lord and in Moses His servant.
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and they declared, saying: I will sing to the Lord, for He is most exalted; the horse with its rider He cast into the sea. The might and retribution of God was my salvation; this is my God and I will glorify Him, the God of my father and I will exalt Him. The Lord is master of war, the Lord is His Name. He hurled Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea; the elite of his officers were drowned in the Sea of Reeds. The deep waters covered them; they dropped into the depths like a stone. Your right hand, O Lord, is adorned with power; Your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy. In Your great majesty, You destroy those who rise up against You; You send forth Your fury, it consumes them like straw. At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up, the flowing streams stood erect like a wall; the deep waters were congealed in the heart of the sea. The foe had said: I will pursue them, I will overtake them, I will divide the spoil, my lust shall be sated upon them; I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall annihilate them. You blew with Your wind, the sea enveloped them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters. Who is like You among the supernal beings, O Lord! Who is like You, resplendent in holiness, awesome in praise, performing wonders! You stretched out Your right hand, the earth swallowed them. In Your lovingkindness You led the people whom You redeemed; in Your strength You guided them to Your holy abode. The nations heard it and trembled; pangs of fear gripped the inhabitants of Philistia. Then the chieftains of Edom were terrified; the mighty men of Moab were panic-stricken; all the inhabitants of Canaan melted away. May terror and dread fall upon them; by the great [strength] of Your arm let them be still as a stone—until Your people pass over, O Lord, until the people You acquired pass over. You will bring them and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance; the place which You, O Lord, have made for Your abode, the Sanctuary which Your hands, O Lord, have established. The Lord will reign forever and ever. The Lord will reign forever and ever. The sovereignty of the Lord is established forever and to all eternity. When the horses of Pharaoh, with his chariots and horsemen, went into the sea, the Lord turned the waters of the sea back on them; and the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea. For sovereignty is the Lord’s, and He rules over the nations. Deliverers will go up to Mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau, and kingship will be the Lord’s. The Lord will be King over the entire earth; on that day the Lord will be One and His Name One.
A song of ascents. Out of the depths I call to You, O Lord. My Lord, hearken to my voice; let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas. God, if You were to preserve iniquities, my Lord, who could survive? But forgiveness is with You, that You may be feared. I hope in the Lord; my soul hopes, and I long for His word. My soul yearns for the Lord more than [night] watchmen [waiting] for the morning, wait for the morning. Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is kindness; with Him there is abounding deliverance. And He will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
The chazzan recites Half Kaddish; the congregation responds Amen as indicated.
Exalted and hallowed be His great Name. (Amen) Throughout the world which He has created according to His will. May He establish His kingship, bring forth His redemption and hasten the coming of His Mashiach. (Amen) In your lifetime and in your days and in the lifetime of the entire House of Israel, speedily and soon, and say, Amen. (Amen. May His great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Blessed.) May His great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Blessed and praised, glorified, exalted and extolled, honored, adored and lauded be the Name of the Holy One, blessed be He. (Amen) Beyond all the blessings, hymns, praises and consolations that are uttered in the world; and say, Amen. (Amen)
The chazzan recites Barchu, bowing at Bless and straightening up at the Lord.
בָּרְכֽוּ אֶת־יְיָ הַמְבֹרָֽךְ:
Bless the Lord who is blessed.
Congregation and chazzan respond, bowing at Blessed and straightening up at the Lord.
בָּרֽוּךְ יְיָ הַמְבֹרָֽךְ לְעוֹלָֽם וָעֶֽד:
Blessed be the Lord who is blessed for all eternity.
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