Take From Me My Heart of Stone

O Lord,

take away my heart of stone,

my hardened heart,

my uncircumcised heart

and grant to me a new heart,

a heart of flesh, a clean heart!

O Thou who purifieth the heart

and loveth the clean heart,

posses my heart and dwell in it,

containing it and filling it,

higher than my highest

and more intimate than my most intimate thoughts.

Thou who art the image of all beauty

and the seal of all holiness,

seal my heart in Thine image

and seal my heart in Thy mercy,

O God of my heart

and the God of my portion in eternity.

Amen.