3. Perish the day on which I was born,the night when they said, “The child is a boy!”
4. May that day be darkness:may God above not care for it,may light not shine upon it!
5. May darkness and gloom claim it,clouds settle upon it,blackness of day affright it!
6. May obscurity seize that night;may it not be counted among the days of the year,nor enter into the number of the months!
7. May that night be barren;let no joyful outcry greet it!
8. Let them curse it who curse the Sea,those skilled at disturbing Leviathan!
9. May the stars of its twilight be darkened;may it look for daylight, but have none,nor gaze on the eyes of the dawn,
10. Because it did not keep shut the doors of the wombto shield my eyes from trouble!
11. Why did I not die at birth,come forth from the womb and expire?
12. Why did knees receive me,or breasts nurse me?
13. For then I should have lain down and been tranquil;had I slept, I should then have been at rest
14. With kings and counselors of the earthwho rebuilt what were ruins
15. Or with princes who had goldand filled their houses with silver.
16. Or why was I not buried away like a stillborn child,like babies that have never seen the light?
17. There the wicked cease from troubling,there the weary are at rest.