| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Shema-Yisroel-Adonai-Elohenu Adonai-Echod | | By Nathan Bernstein |
| | | O GOD of Israel, Lord on high, | |
| Hear, O hear, thy children cry. | |
| Like the wave in stormy gale, | |
| It rises with its mournful wail, | |
| O’er the land in accents drear, | 5 |
| It sounds, and murmurs far and near. | |
| The Russian with his tyrant hand, | |
| Augments it in his cruel land. | |
| His lash and scourge thy chosen race, | |
| Doth scourge and lash with torments base. | 10 |
| He hears their hunger’s fierce desire, | |
| With mocking curses and with ire. | |
| Unclothed and starving they may pine, | |
| His heart is deaf to race of thine. | |
| Therefore we pray thee, Israel’s God, | 15 |
| Free thine own, and with thy rod, | |
| Chastise the tyrant. Let him see, | |
| That still thy race are one with thee; | |
| That still thou art our Adonoy, | |
| And that we worship thee with joy. | 20 | | | |
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