After requesting the re-establishment of the Jewish state that exemplifies God’s love for law and order, we now ask God to protect the state from rebels who seek to undermine our independence and sabotage our national redemption. This request should be said with tremendous love for God and not hate for people. It expresses our hope that evil—not evil-doers—be cast from the earth and that God’s enemies and those who sin against Him be subdued and do teshuvah. And as for the slanderers, undercover apostates and those who vilify their fellow Jews to foreign governments, may they not have hope and therefore, stop scheming against us and may all evil, that is, not the enemy himself, but only the evil he engages in, disappear instantly. Motivated by our love for You and not because of personal vendetta we ask: And may all Your enemies be quickly cut off from any support that sustains their evil deeds so that they will quickly capitulate in defeat. And all deliberate sinners, may You quickly uproot, causing them to lose their footing and falter, break down, crush and subdue, progressively humbling them towards total surrender and teshuvah, speedily in our time. Blessed are You … O how bountiful and abundantly present You are in our lives. O what an ever-flowing wellspring of blessings You are to us, YHVH, Timeless Ultimate Reality, who breaks enemies and subdues deliberate sinners. The more we believe that God is always breaking enemies and subduing sinners, and the more we sincerely want to free ourselves from their threat for God’s sake, the more the blessings for national stability can penetrate and become manifest in our national life.