5   Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
choshek²⁸²² tsalmaveth⁶⁷⁵⁷ ga'al¹³⁵⁰ `ananah<sup>6053</sup> shakan<sup>7931</sup> kimriyr<sup>3650</sup> yowm<sup>3117</sup> ba`ath¹²⁰⁴

6   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.
layil³⁹¹⁵ 'ophel⁶⁵² laqach³⁹⁴⁷ chadah²³⁰² yowm³¹¹⁷ shaneh⁸¹⁴¹ bow'⁹³⁵ micpar⁴⁵⁵⁷ yerach³³⁹¹

7   Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
layil³⁹¹⁵ galmuwd¹⁵⁶⁵ rnanah⁷⁴⁴⁵ bow'⁹³⁵

8   Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
naqab⁵³⁴⁴ 'arar⁷⁷⁹ yowm³¹¹⁷ `athiyd<sup>6264</sup> `uwr⁵⁷⁸² livyathan³⁸⁸²

9   Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
kowkab³⁵⁵⁶ nesheph⁵³⁹⁹ chashak²⁸²¹ qavah⁶⁹⁶⁰ 'owr²¹⁶ ra'ah⁷²⁰⁰ `aph`aph⁶⁰⁷⁹ shachar⁷⁸³⁷

10   Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
cagar⁵⁴⁶² deleth¹⁸¹⁷ beten⁹⁹⁰ cathar⁵⁶⁴¹ `amal<sup>5999</sup> `ayin⁵⁸⁶⁹

11   Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
muwth⁴¹⁹¹ rechem⁷³⁵⁸ gava`¹⁴⁷⁸ yatsa'³³¹⁸ beten⁹⁹⁰

12   Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
berek¹²⁹⁰ qadam⁶⁹²³ shad⁷⁶⁹⁹ yanaq³²⁴³

13   For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
shakab⁷⁹⁰¹ shaqat⁸²⁵² yashen³⁴⁶² nuwach⁵¹¹⁷