1
You are the One who is, Master, Yahuah Shaddai.
2
You alone are without origin, without king over You, and before every age.
3
You need nothing; You are greater than every cause and every beginning.
4
You alone are true, alone wise, alone El Elyon.
5
You are invisible by nature and Your knowledge has no beginning.
6
You alone are good beyond comparison and know all things before they arise.
7
You know the hidden things and cannot be approached or mastered.
8
You are Elohim of Avraham, Yitzchaq, and Yaaqov.
9
You appointed leaders, kohenim, judges, teachers, and servants for the ordering of Your people.
10
You gave Mosheh authority among Yisra'el and Aharon sacred service.
11
You separated Levi for service and appointed order so that the people would not be without instruction.
12
Look upon those entrusted with leadership now.
13
Give them wisdom, discernment, courage, purity, justice, and knowledge.
14
Let them guard the people without greed and judge without partiality.
15
Let their service build up the assembly rather than magnify themselves.
16
Preserve the people in shalom and establish righteous order among them.
C1
The transmitted form addresses Elohim as Father of the only Son and applies the prayer directly to Christian bishops and clergy.
C2
It closes with Christian doxological language.