 Kinah 7. Shomron kol titein metzauni avonai, l’eretz acheres yetzauni vanai – Samaria lifts up her voice, “My iniquities have found me out! My children have gone from me to another land.”
The Refrain:
“And Oholibah cries, “My Palaces are burnt down!” and Zion says: “The Lord has forsaken me!”
And the last verse:
Chadeish yameinu kimei kadmonai, k’na’amecha, bonei Yerushalayim Ado-nai –
Renew our days as the days of old, according to Your declaration: The Lord builds up Jerusalem.
In this Kinah as well as in the next Kinah:
“Ahd ana bechiya beTzion, u’mispeid Bi’yerushalyim. Terachiem Tzion, v’sivneh chomos Yerushalyim –
How much longer shall there be weeping in Zion and mourning in Jerusalem?
O have mercy upon Zion, and rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,” -
the theme of Dayienu keeps reappearing.
These two Kinos, Shomron kol, and Ahd ana bechiya beTzion, bookend the Kinos from this point forward.
They are the last two Kinos that we recite.
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