Rosh Hashanah 32B

גמ׳ מלכיות, כגון: ״חי אני נאם ה׳ [אלהים] אם לא ביד חזקה ובזרוע נטויה ובחמה שפוכה אמלוך עליכם״, ואף על גב דאמר רב נחמן: כל כי האי ריתחא לירתח קודשא בריך הוא עלן וליפרוקינן, כיון דבריתחא אמור ⁠— אדכורי ריתחא בריש שתא לא מדכרינן.

Talmud: The Talmud cites examples of verses that may not be used in Rosh HaShana prayers because they deal with punishment. With regard to verses of Kingship, for example: “As I live, says YHWH God, surely with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, will I be King over you” (Ezekiel 20:33). And although Rav Naḥman said about this verse: With regard to any anger like this, let God express that anger upon us and let Him redeem us, if that is the process necessary for redemption, since the verse was said with anger it is not included, as one does not mention anger on Rosh HaShana.

זכרון ⁠— כגון: ״ויזכור כי בשר המה וגו׳״ שופר ⁠— כגון: ״תקעו שופר בגבעה וגו׳״.

Similarly, verses of remembrance that speak of a punishment may not be used in Rosh HaShana prayers, for example: “So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and does not come again” (Psalms 78:39). Nor verses of shofar, which refer to calamity, for example: “Sound the shofar in Giva, and the trumpet in Rama; sound an alarm at Beit Aven, behind you, O Benjamin” (Hosea 5:8).

אבל אם בא לומר מלכות זכרון ושופר של פורענות של נכרים, אומר. מלכות ⁠— כגון: ״ה׳ מלך ירגזו עמים, וכגון: ״ה׳ מלך עולם ועד אבדו גוים מארצו״. זכרון ⁠— כגון: ״זכור ה׳ לבני אדום וגו׳״. שופר ⁠— כגון: ״וה׳ אלהים בשופר יתקע והלך בסערות תימן״, וכתיב: ״ה׳ צבאות יגן עליהם״.

The Talmud qualifies the Mishnah’s ruling. However, if one comes to recite verses of Kingship, remembrance, and shofar with a theme of the punishment of non-Jews, one may recite them. The Talmud offers examples of these verses: With regard to the verses of Kingship, for example: “YHWH reigns, let the peoples tremble” (Psalms 99:1), and, for example: “YHWH is King for ever and ever; the nations are perished out of His land” (Psalms 10:16). With regard to remembrance, for example: “Remember, O YHWH, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem, who said: Raze it, raze it, to its very foundation” (Psalms 137:7). With regard to the verses of shofar, for example: “And YHWH God will sound the shofar, and will go with whirlwinds of the south” (Zechariah 9:14), and it is written: “YHWH of hosts will defend them” (Zechariah 9:15), i.e., God will defend the Jewish people against their enemies.