Reference for Moed Katan 50:8
(חנין יוחנן זירא אבא יעקב יוסי שמואל חייא מנחם סימן)
Get up and say something. He rose and said [the following]:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The following poem seems to be part of a which had been composed by Bar-Abin on the occasion of a bad flooding of the Tigris in spring time, April-May, cf. Ta'an. ');"><sup>28</sup></span> When more than a 'third'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A third of the country is flooded. Perhaps here refers to Israel, the Jewish quarter in the town. Cf. Isa. XIX, 24 and Shab. 88a.');"><sup>29</sup></span> wadeth in water deep Remember the covenant<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That a flood come not again. Cf. Gen. IX, 15, 16.');"><sup>30</sup></span> and mercy keep.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Hab. III, 2 and P.B. P. 65.');"><sup>31</sup></span> We strayed from Thee as a wayward wife;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A faithless wife was tried by water, Num. V, 22. The flooding has made the waters undrinkable and caused many deaths. vrn hn ,ufzc vrn hn ,utc');"><sup>32</sup></span> Leave us not: as at Marah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Var. lec. by virtue of the old favour at Marah's water', or, as our text: . Deliver us now miraculously as when the bitter water was healed and sweetened for our forefathers at Marah, Ex. XV, 23-25.');"><sup>33</sup></span>