Chants, Psalms

Turn Your Hope to God: Kavay el Yah

Kavay el Yah, Chazak v’ya’amaytz libecha,
Kavay el Yah
Turn Your Hope to God Hebrew text
Turn your hope to God; be strong and be filled with courage;
turn your hope to God. (Psalm 27:14)

Psalm 27, which is especially dedicated to the Tshuvah work of Elul, ends by offering us this visionary possibility. We can turn to God with all our yearning, all our dreams, all our highest and deepest hope. In doing so we will be strengthened in our work of coming close to God. We can also understand this line to mean that it will take all of our strength and all of our courage in order to turn our hope to God. The practice of this chant is to call up that strength, that courage, and use it to make that turning.

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To download the PDF file for this chant, click Turn Your Hope to God PDF. For the musical notation, click Turn Your Hope to God Music.