| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Israel in Russia | | By Arthur Guiterman |
| | | THOU art but One! O God to Whom we bow | |
| In adoration; | |
| E’en as in Egypt, Thou wilt hear us now— | |
| Thy Chosen Nation. | |
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| Much have we sinned; far from Thy face have fled, | 5 |
| By passion driven. | |
| Deep our repentance; Thou myself hast said | |
| We are forgiven. | |
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| Empires of old upon us heaped their chains, | |
| Burthens and lashes; | 10 |
| Thy thunders rolled—and of their might remains | |
| Stubble and ashes! | |
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| Still those we taught to hold Thy Name in awe | |
| Smite and berate us; | |
| We are the leash that binds them to Thy Law— | 15 |
| Wherefore they hate us! | |
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| Vengeance is Thine! yet Thine is mercy, too. | |
| “Shield us, but grieve them | |
| Not!” be our prayer: “They know not what they do. | |
| Father! forgive them!” | 20 | | | |
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