יד בִּימֵי הַתַּעֲנִית אֲפִלּוּ יָחִיד שֶׁהִתְעַנָּה מוֹסִיף בְּשׁוֹמֵעַ תְּפִלָּה עֲנֵנוּ וְכוּ׳. וּשְׁלִיחַ צִבּוּר אוֹמְרָהּ בְּרָכָה בִּפְנֵי עַצְמָהּ בֵּין גּוֹאֵל לְרוֹפֵא וְחוֹתֵם בָּהּ הָעוֹנֶה בְּעֵת צָרָה (וּמוֹשִׁיעַ). וְנִמְצָא מִתְפַּלֵּל עֶשְׂרִים בְּרָכוֹת. בְּתִשְׁעָה בְּאָב מוֹסִיפִין בְּבוֹנֵה יְרוּשָׁלָיִם רַחֵם ה׳ אֱלֹהֵינוּ עָלֵינוּ וְעַל יִשְׂרָאֵל עַמֶּךָ וְעַל יְרוּשָׁלַיִם עִירֶךָ וְעַל הָעִיר הָאֲבֵלָה כוּ׳:
14 On fast days, every one who fasts adds, in the blessing concluding, "Who hearkenest unto prayer," the paragraph beginning, "Answer us etc." The reader of the congregation, when repeating the service aloud, recites this paragraph as an independent blessing, between the blessing relating to redemption and that relating to health; and concludes it with the formula, "Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who answerest in time of trouble." And so on that day the reader recites twenty blessings. On the ninth of Ab, a paragraph is added in the blessing concluding, "Who rebuildest Jerusalem," as follows: Have mercy, O Lord our God, upon us and upon Israel, Thy people, and upon the city that is ruined and desolate …"