3 Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that  hath said: `A man-child hath been conceived.`
         
                                
                        4 That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from  above, Nor let light shine upon it.
         
                                
                        5 Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud  tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of  days.
         
                                
                        6 That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be  united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it  not come.
         
                                
                        7 Lo! that night -- let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into  it.
         
                                
                        8 Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up  Leviathan.
         
                                
                        9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for  light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of  the dawn.