(Maoz tzur) YOU-rt FOUNDATION MY SALVATION. ME THRILLED PRAISE YOU-rt. PLEASE SET-UP MY HOUSE FOR PRAY. #DO-DO? WE BRING OFFER THANK++. WHEN YOU-rt HELP US PREPARED KILL"each" ENEMY THEY-lf AGAINST YOUR++, HAPPEN? ME DEDICATE ALTAR WITH SONG.

(Raot shavah) MY SOUL HAD-FILL-OF TROUBLE. ME GRIEVE"over time" LEAD-TO EXHAUSTED. ENEMY THEY-lf MAKE MY LIFE BITTER. WE SLAVE EGYPT, ITSELF-ctr WORSHIP BABY COW. BUT HE-rt USE HIS-rt WONDERFUL POWER HELP PEOPLE he-rt CHERISH. EGYPT KING HIS-lf ARMY (2h)#ALL CONFRONT SEA DROWN LIKE STONE.

(D'vir qadsho) HE-rt BRING-TO-me HIS-rt TOP* HOLY PLACE, BUT STILL ME REST NONE. OPPRESSOR COME FORCE ME LEAVE ISRAEL. ME SERVE STRANGER MUST. ME DRINK WINE MAKE MIND N-U-M-B. SOON SALVATION ARRIVE AGAIN. (<) SEVENTY YEARS LATER, ENEMY COLLAPSE. (>) OUR Z-E-R-U-B-A-V-E-L STAND-FIRM.

(K'rot qomat) (2h)YOU REMEMBER PURIM? H-A-M-A-N TRY KILL M-O-R-D-E-C-H-A-I. PRIDE LEAD H-A-M-A-N FAIL. BIG-HEADED GULP QUIET. JEWISH PEOPLE DOMINANT, H-A-M-A-N HIS-left NAME YOU-rt DESTROY FINISH. HIS-lf SON TEN, HANGED (2h)V-CL'bodies on gallows from top to bottom' THAT'S-IT.

(Y'vanim nikb'tzu) LATER GREEK PEOPLE TRY DESTROY OUR CULTURE. WALL OUR RAMPARTS THEY-lf OVER MAKE TEMPLE O-I-L DIRTY*. ONLY-ONE* CUP LEFT CLEAN*. SHOW GOD HIS-God's MIRACLE BLOSSOM. RABBI WISE SET-UP CELEBRATE EIGHT D-A-Y-S, SING, CANDLE LIGHT-CANDLE"each".

(Chasof z'roa) SHOW"all" WORLD YOUR-rt POWER. HURRY TIME-PERIOD JEWISH PEOPLE FINALLY SAVE. BAD COUNTRY VARIOUS RESPONSIBLE SPILL-OUT OUR BLOOD, PLEASE REVENGE"each". OUR VICTORY POSTPONED TOO LONG. BAD HAPPEN SAME-OLD-THING, DON'T. LONG-AGO BAD INFLUENCE PUSH-ASIDE. LET OUR SEVEN HERO TAKE-UP CONTROL.

Notes: FOUNDATION - NDH [S], PO > signer, FO > DS, is held out with arm parallel to the chest and DH [S], PO > signer, strikes hand from below and then strikes elbow from below.

PREPARED - (2h)[S] are held at the chest as if holding a rope and move forward while opening to (2h)[5]. For a QuickTime movie of this sign, see ASL browser - cause.

HAD-FILL-OF - [5:], PO down, FO > NDS is held under chin and drawn > DS while closing to an [S].

(2h)#ALL - (2h)[A], POs ><, FOs up, are held at shoulder height and move away while opening to (2h)[L].

CONFRONT - (2h)[B], start with FOs away, DPO down, NDPO up, hands move away together, then circle back slightly and end with FOs up.

STAND-FIRM - Elbow of DH [S] is placed firmly against the backhand of NDH [B], PO down.

BIG-HEADED - (2h)[L:], POs ><, are held at sides of head and seperate like the sign BIG with pc.

GULP - [5:], PO > throat, FO up, closes to [S], while compressing mouth.

DOMINANT - (2h)[A], FOs away, DH starts below NDH and arcs around it until it is on top.

HANGED - [S], PO away, FO > NDS, pulls at neck like rope and head moves > NDS.

(2h)V-CL'bodies on gallows from top to bottom' - (2h)[V^], POs down, FOs away, hands are held high, DH below NDH, and with NDH in place, DH descends in a jerky motion to show people hanged one below the other.

THAT'S-IT - (2h)[5], POs ><, FOs away, both hands rise while shaking at the wrists.

RAMPARTS - (2h)[S] places D arm on top of ND arm like TABLE and then ND on D.

BLOSSOM - (2h)[A] press palms together and twist like CHANGE, opening to (2h)[5;].

RABBI - (2h)[R], POs > signer, fingertips touch the top of the chest at each side and descend straight down the chest while touching it. For a QuickTime movie of this sign, see ASL browser - rabbi.

SPILL-OUT - (2h)[C] spill out an imaginary liquid.

PUSH-ASIDE - (2h)[B], POs > NDS, FOs away, push an imaginary object > NDS.

HERO - BRAVE BOY.

Lyrics:

מעוז צור ישועתי, לך נאה לשבח, תיכון בית תפילתי, ושם תודה נזבח, לעת תכין מטבח מצר המנבח, אז אגמור בשיר מזמור, חנוכת המזבח.

רעות שבעה נפשי, ביגון כוחי כילה, חיי מררו בקושי, בשעבוד מלכות עגלה, ובידו הגדולה, הוציא את הסגולה, חיל פרעה וכל זרעו, ירדו כאבן במצולה.

דביר קדשו הביאני, וגם שם לא שקטתי, ובא נוגש והגלני, כי זרים עבדתי, ויין רעל מסכתי, כמעט שעברתי, קץ בבל זרובבל, לקץ שבעים נושעתי.

כרות קומת ברוש בקש, אגגי בן המדתא, ונהיתה לו לפח ולמוקש, וגאוותו נשבתה, ראש ימיני נישאת, ואויב שמו מחית, רוב בניו וקנייניו, על העץ תלית.

יוונים נקבצו עלי, אזי בימי חשמנים, ופרצו חומות מגדלי, וטמאו כל השמנים, ומנותר קנקנים, נעשה נס לשושנים, בני בינה, ימי שמונה, קבעו שיר ורננים.

חשוף זרוע קדשך, וקרב קץ הישועה, נקום נקמת דם עבדיך, מאומה הרשעה, כי ארוכה לנו הישועה, ואין קץ לימי הרעה, דחה אדמון, בצל צלמון, הקם לנו רועים שבעה

Transliteration: (paragraph 1 and 5)

Ma-oz Tzur Y'shu-a-si Le-cha Na-eh L'sha-bei-ach
Ti-kon Beis T'fi-la-si V'sham To-da N'za-bei-ach
L'eis Ta-chin Mat-bei-ach Mi-tzar Ha-mi-ga-bei-ach
Az Eg-mor B'shir Miz-mor Cha-nu-kas Ha-miz-bei-ach

Y'va-nim Nik-bi-tzu A-lai A-zai Bi-may Chash-ma-nim
U'far-tzu Chomos Migda-lai V'tim-u Kol Ha-shma-nim
U'mi-no-sar Kan-ka-nim Na-a-sa Neis La-sho-sha-nim
B'nei Vi-nah Y'mei Sh'mo-nah Kav-u Shir U'ri-na-nim

Translation:

O mighty stronghold of my salvation,
to praise You is a delight.
Restore my House of Prayer
and there we will bring a thanksgiving offering.
When You will have prepared the slaughter
for the blaspheming foe,
Then I shall complete with a song of hymn
the dedication of the Altar.

My soul had been sated with troubles,
my strength has been consumed with grief.
They had embittered my life with hardship,
with the calf-like kingdom's bondage.
But with His great power
He brought forth the treasured ones,
Pharaoh's army and all his offspring
Went down like a stone into the deep.

To the holy abode of His Word He brought me.
But there, too, I had no rest
And an oppressor came and exiled me.
For I had served aliens,
And had drunk benumbing wine.
Scarcely had I departed
At Babylon's end Zerubabel came.
At the end of seventy years I was saved.

To sever the towering cypress
sought the Aggagite, son of Hammedatha,
But it became [a snare and] a stumbling block to him
and his arrogance was stilled.
The head of the Benjaminite You lifted
and the enemy, his name You obliterated
His numerous progeny - his possessions -
on the gallows You hanged.

Greeks gathered against me
then in Hasmonean days.
They breached the walls of my towers
and they defiled all the oils;
And from the one remnant of the flasks
a miracle was wrought for the roses.
Men of insight - eight days
established for song and jubilation

Bare Your holy arm
and hasten the End for salvation -
Avenge the vengeance of Your servants' blood
from the wicked nation.
For the triumph is too long delayed for us,
and there is no end to days of evil,
Repel the Red One in the nethermost shadow
and establish for us the seven shepherds.

To hear a performance of this hymn, go to Steve Brodsky & Friends Maoz Tzur - Boulder, CO 2007.