הֲמָאֹ֨ס מָאַ֜סְתָּ אֶת־יְהוּדָ֗ה אִם־בְּצִיּוֹן֙ גָּעֲלָ֣ה נַפְשֶׁ֔ךָ מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ הִכִּיתָ֔נוּ וְאֵ֥ין לָ֖נוּ מַרְפֵּ֑א קַוֵּ֤ה לְשָׁלוֹם֙ וְאֵ֣ין ט֔וֹב וּלְעֵ֥ת מַרְפֵּ֖א וְהִנֵּ֥ה בְעָתָֽה׃
Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Hath Thy soul loathed Zion? Why hast Thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; And for a time of healing, and behold terror!
Tractate Soferim
On the Feast of Weeks35Pentecost. [the psalm is] Ascribe unto the Lord, O ye sons of might.36Ps. 29. On the ninth day of Ab [the reading consists] of four verses of Jeremiah, Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? to For Thou hast made all these things,37Jer. 14, 19-22. and the following two psalms, O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance38Ps. 79. and By the rivers of Babylon.39Ps. 137. Although it is usual40lit. ‘in every place’. to give precedence to the Holy Words41lit. ‘words of holiness’, the Hagiographa. over the words of [prophetical] traditions,42The Prophets forming the second division of the Scriptures. in this case the latter43Jeremiah, although it is included in the Prophets. takes precedence over the former.44The Psalms, which are included in the Hagiographa.