^{3 Ref} Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

^{4 Ref} Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

^{5 Ref} Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

⁶ As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

^{7 Ref} Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.

^{8 Ref} Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

^{9 Ref} Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

^{10 Ref} Because it shut not up the doors of my `mother's' womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.