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Prophecy: Largamente - • 7:40 Profanation: Vivace con brio – • 14:10 Lamentation: Lento*

*Mezzo-Soprano: Helen Medlyn

Eicha [From “The Lamentations of Jeremiah”]

PEREQ 1, 1-3 [CHAPTER 1, 1-3]

Eicha yashva vadad ha’ir [How doth the city sit solitary,]
Rabati am [That was full of people!]
Hay’ta k’almana; [How is she become as a widow!]
Rabati vagoyim [She that was great among the nations,]
Sarati bam’dinot [And princess among the provinces,]
Hay’ta lamas. [How is she become tributary!]

Bacho tivkeh balaila [She weepeth sore in the night,]
V’dim’ata al lexeiya; [And her tears are on her cheeks;]
Ein la m’naxem [She hath none to comfort her]
Mikol ohaveiha; [Among all her lovers;]
Kol re’eha bag’du va; [All her friends have dealt treacherously with her.]
Hayu la l’oyevim. [They are become her enemies.]

Galta Y’huda me’oni [Judah is gone into exile because of affliction,]
Umerov avoda; [And because of great servitude;]
Hi yashva vagoyim, [She dwelleth among the nations,]
Lo matz’a mano’ax; [She findeth no rest.]
Kol rod’feha hisiguha [All her pursuers overtook her]
Bein hamitzarim. [Within the narrow passes.]

PEREQ 1, 8 [CHAPTER 1, 8]

xet hat’a Y’rushalayim… [Jerusalem hath grievously sinned…]
Eicha yashva vadad ha’ir [How doth the city sit solitary]
…almana. […a widow.]

PEREQ 4, 14-15 [CHAPTER 4, 14-15]

Na’u ivrim baxutzot [They wander as blind men in the streets,]
N’go’alu badam; [They are polluted with blood,]
B’lo yuchlu [So that men cannot]
Yig’u bilvusheihem. [Touch their garments.]

Suru tame! kar’u lamo, [Depart, ye unclean! they cried unto them,]
Suru, suru! al tiga’u… [Depart, depart! touch us not…]

PEREQ 5, 20-21 [CHAPTER 5, 20-21]

Lama lanetzax tishkaxenu… [Wherefore dost Thou forget us forever,]
Lanetzax ta’azvenu… [And forsake us so long time?…]

Hashivenu Adonai elecha… [Turn Thou us into Thee, O Lord...]