I AM
THE SUPPLIANT
Baruch ben Samuel died in Mayence in 1221. He wrote Talmudical commentarics and works in law, besides many poems for the synagogue. I am the Suppliant is a Selichah recited in the Musaf Service of the Day of Atonement.
Stanza 2, line 1, Jeremiah iv, 19.
Stanza 7, line 4, Lamentations i, 1.
Stanza 13, line 4, Lamentations i, 18,
Stanza 15, line 4, Genesis xxvii, 2.
Stanza 16, line 4, Psalm xxxix, 13.
Stanza 17, line 2, Hosea i, 6; line 3, Psalm xvii, 1.
Stanza 18, line 4, Numbers xi, 15.
Stanza 19, line 4, Jonah ii, 8.
Stanza 21, line 4, Psalm xxx, 10.
Stanza 22, line 4, Genesis xxxvii, 7.
Stanza 23, line 4, Genesis xlviii, 19,
Stanza 25, line 3, Psalm cxix, 176.
Stanza 26, line 4, Genesis xliv, 28.
Stanza 27, line 4, Song of Songs v, 6.
Stanza 30, line 4, Genesis xxxiii, 11,
Stanza 31, line 4, Genesis xxix, 19.
Stanza 32, line 4, Lamentations, iii, 56.
