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Let the day perish in which I was born and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above; neither let the light shine upon it.

Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

O, let that night be solitary; let no song come therein!

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

Let the stars of its dawn be darkened; they waited for light, but have none; neither let them see the dawning of the day;

10 because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb nor hide the misery from my eyes.

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