## Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day

###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:1
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:1)

מחבר: רבי אלעזר הקליר


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:2
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:2)

מסודר לפי אקרוסטיכון א"ת ב"ש


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:3
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:3)

אַ**אֲ**דֶה עַד חוּג שָׁמַיִם. אַ**אֲ**לֶה אִתִּי שָׁמַיִם. אָ**אֹ**ר יוֹם מַחֲרִיבִי פַּעֲמַיִם. אֶ**תְ**אוֹנֵן מִי יִתֵּן רֹאשִׁי מַיִם:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
Let my laments circle like vapour up to heaven. Asking heaven to join in with my sorrow. For today is a day that I was destroyed twice. As we proclaim “Oh, that my head were water”.


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:4
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:4)

אַ**בְ**חִין בִּבְכִי יְלֵל מִדְבָּר. אֶ**בְ**חֲנָה לֵיל מִלֵּיל וּמִדְבָּר מִמִּדְבָּר. אֲ**בַ**כֶּה אִתִּי עוֹלַת מִדְבָּר. אֶ**שְׁ**אַג מִי יִתְּנֵנִי בַמִּדְבָּר:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
I will see the weeping and wailing of the desert. I compare this night with that of the past, this time in the desert with that of the past. I shall weep in the wilderness. I will roar out “Oh, to be in the wilderness”.


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:5
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:5)

אֶ**גָּ**דַע וְאֶנָּשֵׁל כְּנֹקֶף זַיִת. אֲ**גָ**רֶה אִתִּי כָּל בְּנֵי בַיִת. אֶ**גְ**רֹם שֶׁיֹּאמַר בַּעַל הַבַּיִת. אֵ**רָ**שֶׁה מִי יִתְּנֵנִי שָׁמִיר וָשַׁיִת:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
I shall be severed and rejected like an olive branch. I will incite all the members of the celestial household to stand with me. I will provoke the Master of the House and will state “If one offers me thorns and thistles”,


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:6
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:6)

אַ**דְ**וֶה בְּכָל לֵב לְהַמְצִיאֵהוּ. אֵ**דְ**עָה מִלִּין בָּם לְאַמְּצֵהוּ. אֶ**דְ**אַג אַיֵּה רוֹעֶה וְלֹא אֶמְצָאֵהוּ. אֲ**ק**וֹנֵן מִי יִתֵּן יָדַעְתִּי אֶמְצָאֵהוּ:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
I will adore him wholeheartedly. I will learn the words to encourage Him. I will be worried and ask “Where is the Shepherd?” for I cannot find Him. I will call out “Would that I knew how to reach Him”.


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:7
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:7)

אֵ**הָ**פְכָה וְאֶתְהַפְּכָה כְּאוֹפָן בְּמִלַּי. אֶ**הְ**גֶּה פָּנִים בְּפָנִים לְתַנּוֹת עֲמָלַי. אָ**הֲ**הוּ חֶרֶס וְסַהַר מִלְּהַגִּיהַּ לְמוּלַי. אֶ**צְ**רַח מִי יִתֵּן אֵפוֹא וְיִכָּתְבוּן מִלָּי:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
I will turn my words again and again like a wheel. I will recount to him face to face my troubles. The sun and moon will exhibit their woes by ceasing to shine. I will scream out “O that my words were written down”.


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:8
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:8)

א**וֹ**רַח מִשְׁפְּטֵי גּוֹנְבֵי עֲלִי. א**וֹ**דִיעַ בְּבִצְעִי וּמַעֲלִי. א**וּ**מְלְלוּ מַזָּלוֹת בְּקָרְעִי מְעִילִי. אֶ**פְ**עֶה מִי יִתֵּן שׁוֹמֵעַ לִי:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
The guilt of those stealing the first fruits past my enemies hangs over me, I will declare these actions sinful, The constellations weeped as the Kohen Gadol’s tunic was torn. I will scream out “O that I had someone to give me a hearing.”


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:9
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:9)

אָ**זְ**דָה כְּהוּפְרָה הָאֲבִיּוֹנָה. אֶ**זְ**כְּרָה כִּי הָיִיתִי מְחֻתָּנָה. אַ**זִּ**יל פְּלָגִים כִּבְרֵכָה הָעֶלְיוֹנָה. אֶ**עֱ**גוֹר מִי יִתֶּן לִי אֵבֶר כַּיּוֹנָה:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
She went into exile due to the breaking of the ancestral covenant. I remember when we were married. I will shed tears like streams from a great pond. I will wail “O that I had the wings of a dove!”


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:10
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:10)

אָ**ח** נִפְשָׁע מִקִּרְיַת עֹז אֶל צֹר. אָ**ח**וּ בְּלִי מַיִם בְּאַף לַעֲצֹר. אָ**חַ**ז קָמוֹת לִקְצֹר וְעוֹלְלוֹת לִבְצֹר. אָ**שִׂ**יחָה מִי יוֹבִילֵנִי עִיר מָצוֹר:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
My brother’s sins can be compared to the idols of the enemies. The pastures are without water due to His anger. The harvest is reaped late as are the vineyards. I will recite “Would that I were brought to the ramparts”.


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:11
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:11)

אֶ**טַּ**ע אָהֳלֵי אַפַּדְנִי בְּצַלְמָוֶת. אָ**ט**וּסָה וְאֶשְׁכֹּנָה עַד חֲצַר מָוֶת. אֶ**טָּ**פֵל אֶת הַמְּחַכִּים לַמָּוֶת. אֶ**נְ**הֶה מִי גֶבֶר יִחְיֶה וְלֹא יִרְאֶה מָּוֶת:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
I will plant my great tent in the midst of these tombs. I will fly away and reside in this graveyard and take care of those awaiting death. I will lament “What man can live and not see death”.


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:12
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:12)

אֱ**יָ**לוּתִי לְעֶזְרָתִי תַּרְתִּי חֲזוֹת. אֲ**י**וּמָתִי בְּכָל שָׁנָה אוֹמֶרֶת הִיא הַשָּׁנָה הַזֹּאת. אֲ**יַ**דַּע לַכֹּל כִּי מוּדַעַת זֹאת. אִ**ם** לֹא כִּי יַד יְיָ עָשְׂתָה זֹאת:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
LORD, I asked for Your help, every year my people say that this will be the year, but I will let all know that I am aware of their plight “That the hand of the LORD has done this”.


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:13
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:13)

אֶ**כֹּ**ף לְךָ רֹאשׁ יְיָ חֵילִי. אֶ**כְ**רַע לְךָ בֶּרֶךְ לְחַתֵּל מַחֲלִי. אַ**כְ**תִּירְךָ בְּשִׁיר מִשִּׁירֵי מְחוֹלִי. אֲ**כַ**וֵּן מִי יִתֶּנְךָ כְּאָח לִי:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
I bow down my head to You, LORD, my strength. I kneel before You in supplication to bandage my wounds. I will praise You in song with verses from my wounds. I will direct my prayer “If only You could be with us as with a brother”.


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:14
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:14)

אַ**ל** תִּשְׁכַּח צַעֲקַת אֲרִיאֵל. אֵ**לָ**יו לֶאֱגֹר יְהוּדָה וְיִשְׂרָאֵל. אַ**לְ**פֵי שִׁנְאָן אֲשֶׁר מָסַר אֵל. **לֵ**אמֹר מִי יִתֵּן מִצִּיּוֹן יְשׁוּעַת יִשְׂרָאֵל:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
Don’t forget the cries from your Temple, rejoin the remnants of Judah and Israel and return them to her. The thousands who have been exiled shall return to God to state “Would that the deliverance of Israel might come from Zion!”


###### Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:15
[Kinnot for Tisha B'Av (Ashkenaz), Kinot for Tisha B'Av Day 8:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Kinnot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20%28Ashkenaz%29/s/Kinot%20for%20Tisha%20B%27Av%20Day/r/8:15)

יִשְׂרָ**אֵל** מֵעֵת בִּדְרָכַי לֹא הָלָכוּ. **עֲזָ**בוּנִי וַעֲזַבְתִּים וּפָנַי מֵהֶם נֶהְפָּכוּ. **רָ**גַנְתִּי וְהֵילַלְתִּי וּמֵעַי וְלִבִּי נִשְׁפָּכוּ. אֵיכָה תִּפְאַרְתִּי מֵרַאֲשׁוֹתַי הִשְׁלִיכוּ:

**The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur and Humash for Summer Camp (translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks):**
(God responds) Since the time Israel has not followed my ways, left Me so I left them and turned My face from them; I grieved and cried, my bowels and my heart poured out. How they have torn My glorious crown from My head.