Abducted – A Prayer

May the One who blessed our ancestors, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, Moshe and Aharon, David and Shlomo, Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel and Leah, bless and protect and guard those who were abducted and taken hostage, the missing and the kidnapped, who were taken from their homes, their villages and their kibbutzim, from military posts and from fields of dance. And who are now in grave danger, in hostile and foreign locations, in the hands of messengers of destruction.
For we, and all the people of Israel, are praying on their behalf, may the Holy Blessed One, have compassion upon them and bring them out from darkness and the shadow of death; break their bonds and deliver them from distress, and redeem them speedily, returning them to their families, their towns and homes, and to fields of dance and joy. May there be fulfilled in them the verse: "Those redeemed by God will return; they will enter Zion with singing, and everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away." And let us say: Amen.

English translation: Jeremy Kuttner