5. Waye’ǝzeni Tansǝ’u

This prayer comes right after the preceding one during the Sabbath morning service. On the Seventh Sabbath it is sung in a different melody. The text focuses on the notion of judgment. Anyone who turns to God wishes to be fairly judged. God should go after the enemies of those who pray. He is asked to be merciful and to refrain from being angry at those who pray.

The piece opens with a rather elaborate melodic formula sung by the soloist and closes with another elaborate formula sung simultaneously by the soloist and the choir. In between these two sections, the melodic material is organized in a hemiola pattern of a particular kind: unlike the previous piece, it does not follow the 2 vs 3 pattern but 2 vs 5. Each verse contains three melodic units (A, B, C), repeated in the same sequence in both hemistiches, as shown in the following table: