[A Psalm] of David. Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness. (Psalms 37:1)

With the possibility of a United States attack on Syria still on the table, terrorist group Hezbollah, an ally of the Syrian and Iranian governments, has begun mobilizing on along the Israel-Lebanon border late Thursday, according to The Times of Israel. Hezbollah is reportedly considering a variety of retaliatory attacks on Israel if US President Barack Obama decides to hit Syria for President Bashar Assad’s chemical attack on his own people this week.

According to Israel’s Channel 10, Hezbollah’s leadership has been holding intensive discussions about possible reprisal attacks on the Jewish state, citing a Lebanese media source.

Hezbollah is unlikely to attack Israel unless a Western assault on Syria aims to topple Assad or seriously damage the Syrian army’s capabilities,a senior source with ties to Hezbollah told the Daily Star on Wednesday.

“If the Western attack is limited to certain targets in Syria, then, Hezbollah will not intervene,” the source said. However, “in the event of a qualitative [Western military] strike that aims to change the balance of power in Syria, Hezbollah will fight on various fronts,” he added, an event that “will plunge Lebanon virtually and immediately into the inferno of a war with Israel.”

As its northern border grows more perilous, at least one prominent rabbi has taken to prayer for the Syrian people. According to Israel Hayom, influential Rabbi Yuval Cherlow has penned a prayer for the innocent people caught in the middle of Syria’s vicious two and a half year civil war. According to the haredi portal Kikar Hashabat, a group of National Service volunteers wrote to Rabbi Cherlow, “We propose that the Dan [regional] division of the Bnei Akiva movement pray for an end to the massacre in Syria.”

Cherlow was reportedly moved by the request and told the volunteers to read Psalms 37 and 120, and offered to write a prayer for the people of Syria that they could append to the psalms. Rabbi Cherlow’s then composed a prayer himself, which read, “”Master of the universe, Who makes peace on high,

“Although we are not authorized to canonize new prayers, we can no longer look upon the atrocity done in Your world and not pray about it. Although we know that both sides in the war have savagely shed blood, we cannot remain silent while so many noncombatants have become casualties.

“We turn to You in prayer that You may awaken the simple humanity and quality of mercy in the murderers, and the recognition that we were all created in God’s image, and that even cruelty has limits. What is written in the Torah should be revealed in the world: ‘Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God He made man.’

“Send us the wisdom to know how to act at this difficult time, when the dark side of man’s evil inclination again appears, and we don’t know what we must do facing this bitter reality. Send us the ability to prevent bloodshed in the world, and especially in this great Holy Land, about which You wrote in your Torah: ‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.’

“May God who makes peace on high, make peace upon us and upon all Israel, and let us say amen.”