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2nd August 2009

B'Leil Zeh Yibachayun

Translation of the Kinah בליל זה יבכיון (found on page 41 of the Avodat Hashem Tisha B'Av siddur). The hebrew text and recordings are available at http://www.piyut.org.il/textual/287.html

Tonight my children cry and wail. The night my house was destroyed and my palace burned. And all of the house of Israel groans in grief. They cry over the fire that Hashem burned.

Tonight, five harsh things were brought upon me: It was decreed on our ancestors and tehy were punished. That they would not enter into the holy land.

And the temple was destroyed and also plowed over -- the first temple and the second, the old one and the new one.

And the city of Beitar was trapped -- it becamse the object of the snare and stumbling block.

Tonight, because of Hashem's reasons.

They cry over the fire that Hashem burned.

Tonight, wailing, bitterness, poverty, and isolation. Today she is forsaken from the house of her father, and the time of her crying is lengthened. She wails direges because her house was destroyed in a consuming fire, and coals were a flame were sent by Hashem.

They cry over the fire that Hashem burned.

Tonight I was exiled, and my house was destroyed. On the 9th of the month [of Av] at the time of Ma'ariv.

I was on my watch, the watch of Yehoyariv, and the enemy entered and offered his sacrifices, and he came into the Mikdash, which Hashem had commanded that he may not do.

They cry over the fire that Hashem burned.

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