Ilu Finu – Song Like the Sea

This is a text we encounter in the synagogue at least weekly, since it is in the traditional liturgy, as part of Shabbat and festival morning prayers. My main motivation for doing a papercut with this text is that there are a few settings of this text to songs that I particularly enjoy.

Hebrew:
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????????????? ?????? ????????? ????????
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Translation:
Even if our mouths
Were filled with song like the sea
And our tongues with exultation
Like the roaring of its waves
We would never sufficiently
Thank You

January 2026
10" x 13"