Referência sobre Lamentações 3:44

Finally the day of Rabbi Akiba’s trial by Tyranos Rufus came. This was a day of terror for all the Jews. Rabbi Joshua Hagarsi prayed to God for Rabbi Akiba until the minute that the sentence was passed and as he stood immersed in prayer a cloud overcast the sky. Rabbi Joshua remembered the verse of the Lamentations (3:44) and he addressed the following words to God: “You have covered yourself with a cloud that my prayer should not reach You and that You should not hear my appeal.”³²⁾מדרש איכה רבתי פּרשה ג׳ פּיסקא ל״ה.