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According to the [website](https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nlis/he/song/pages/song.aspx?songid=105#3,138,3318,1678) of the National Library of Israel, indeed there used to be another stanza which appears in [Machzor Vitri](https://www.sefaria.org.il/Machzor_Vitry%2C_Order_of_Shabbat.159?lang=he):
>**קדשם** במצותיך יטהרם כעצם השמים לטוהר. **רוחך** (תנחומו כבבהמה) [תנחמו כבהמה] תרד בבקעה מן ההר: **שבתיהם** **תשכנם** בנחלת הסהר. כנחלים נטיו. וכגנות עלי נהר: אחרת:
It is unclear why exactly the final stanza was dropped and replaced. According to [Wikipedia](https://he.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9B%D7%9C_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%A9_%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%99), there's a legend that says that the last stanza was dropped because the songwriter died before completing the song and those lines were added by a different person.
Also according to Wikipedia, Rabbi Avraham Abba of Pittsburgh added a different final stanza:
>**קדושים** ישראל מאז ולעולמים, **רצים** למגדלך ובשמך נשגבים, **שבתות** קדשך מייחדים ומענגים ובך נדבקים, **תיקון** השלם ישיגו בחיינו בחסד וברחמים ובקרב הימים

According to the [website](https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nlis/he/song/pages/song.aspx?songid=105#3,138,3318,1678) of the National Library of Israel, indeed there used to be another stanza which appears in [Machzor Vitri](https://www.sefaria.org.il/Machzor_Vitry%2C_Order_of_Shabbat.159?lang=he):
>**קדשם** במצותיך יטהרם כעצם השמים לטוהר. **רוחך** (תנחומו כבבהמה) [תנחמו כבהמה] תרד בבקעה מן ההר: **שבתיהם** **תשכנם** בנחלת הסהר. כנחלים נטיו. וכגנות עלי נהר: אחרת:&rlm;
It is unclear why exactly the final stanza was dropped and replaced. According to [Wikipedia](https://he.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9B%D7%9C_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%A9_%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%99), there's a legend that says that the last stanza was dropped because the songwriter died before completing the song and those lines were added by a different person.
Also according to Wikipedia, Rabbi Avraham Abba of Pittsburgh added a different final stanza:
>**קדושים** ישראל מאז ולעולמים, **רצים** למגדלך ובשמך נשגבים, **שבתות** קדשך מייחדים ומענגים ובך נדבקים, **תיקון** השלם ישיגו בחיינו בחסד וברחמים ובקרב הימים

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