"To the conductor, for the servant of the Lord. This is what the scripture says (Psalms 16:1), 'A psalm of David. Preserve me, O God, for in You I have taken refuge.' Rabbi Yudan in the name of Rabbi Yehuda said, 'Everything that David said in his book, he said corresponding to himself, to all of Israel, and to all times.'
Our Master, the Lord of the Universe, You performed miracles for us at night and we sang praises at night, as it says (Exodus 15:2), 'The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise Him.' And it says (Isaiah 30:29), 'You shall have a song, as in the night when a holy festival is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute, to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.'
You performed miracles for us during the day and we sang praises to You during the day, as it says (Psalms 118:24), 'This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.'...