1 And when I heard (this) from on high, awe and trembling fell upon me.
2 And I rose up from my dream and, the voice still being in my ears, I said,
3 “How fearful is this place! This is none Other than the house of God and this is the gate of heaven.”
4 And I set up the stone which had been my pillow as a pillar, and I poured olive oil on the top of it, and I called the name of that place the House of God.
5 And I stood and began to sing, and I said,
6 "LORD God of Adam your creature and
LORD God of Abraham and Isaac my fathers
and of all who have walked before you in justice!
7 You who sit firmlyb on the cherubim and the fieryc throne of glory. . . and the many-eyed (ones) just as I saw in my dream,
8 holding the four-faced cherubim,
bearing also the many-eyed seraphim,
9 carrying the whole worldd under your arm,
yet not being borne by anyone;
10 you who have made the skies firm for the glory of your name,
11 stretching out on two heavenly clouds the heaven which gleams under you,
12 that beneath it you may cause the sun to course and conceal it during the night so that it might not seem a god;
13 (you) who made on them a way for the moon and the stars;
14 and you make the moon wax and wane, and destine the stars to pass on
so that they too might not seem gods.
15 Before the face of your glory the six-winged seraphim are afraid, and they
cover their feet and faces with their wings, while flying with their
Other (wings), and they sing unceasingly a hymn:
16 ‘. . . whom I now in sanctifying a new (song)
17 Twelve-topped, twelve-faced, many-named, fiery one!
Lightning-eyed holy one!
18 Holy, Holy, Holy, Yao, Y aova, Yaoil, Yao,
Kados, Chavod, Savaoth,
19 Omlemlech il avir amismi varich,
eternal king, mighty, powerful, most great,
patient, blessed one!’
20 You who fill heaven and earth, the sea and abysses
and all the ages with your glory,
21 hear my song with which I have sung you and grant me the request I ask of you,
22 and tell me the interpretation of my dream,
for you are a god who is mighty, powerful and glorious,
a god who is holy; my LORD and LORD of my fathers.”