The Lord will have mercy/ May God take pity!/ One must not despair of God's mercy!
An expression of supplication that the Lord will have mercy, help, and save. Or: an utterance of a cry to express shock or distress after hearing difficult news.
("And therefore we comfort them, saying, for the Lord will have mercy on him as He had mercy on Cain, for he was purer than they, and he too will pray before Him and His prayer will be heard" - Ramban, Berishat 4:23, and so: "And Jonah's life is still strengthened in his confidence: the Lord will have mercy on them, the Lord will not forsake them" - Y.L. Peretz/ The "Worker of Miracles", 18, And so: "Lovers and lovers. These shake their heads in the way of the gate, and these comfort and say, "May the Lord have mercy"" - Agnon/ Tamol Shilshom, 240, and so: "Who will make Aparnes my wife?... - May the Lord have mercy!" - H. Hazaz/ Rahamim, 211)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
ה' יְרַחֵם!, הַשֵּׁם יְרַחֵם!, יְרַחֵם ה'
Definition (Hebrew)
הַבָּעַת מִשְׁאָלָה שֶׂה' יְרַחֵם,יַעֲזֹר,וְיַצִּיל. אוֹ: בִּטּוּי קְרִיאָה לְהַבָּעַת זַעֲזוּעַ לְאַחַר שְׁמִיעַת מֵידָע קָשֶׁה.
("וְלָמֶךְ נַחֵם אוֹתָן לֵאמֹר, כִּי הַשֵּׁם יְרַחֵם עָלָיו כַּאֲשֶׁר רַחֵם עַל קַיִן, כִּי הוּא נָקִי כַּפַּיִם מִמֶּנּוּ, וְיִתְפַּלֵּל לְפָנָיו גַּם הוּא וַיִּשְׁמַע תְּפִלָּתוֹ"- רַמְבָּ"ן בְּרֵאשִׁית ד כג, וְכֵן:"וְחַיִּים יוֹנָה עוֹדוֹ מַחֲזִיק בְּבִטְחוֹנוֹ:הַשֵּׁם יְרַחֵם, הַשֵּׁם לֹא יַעַזְבֶנּוּ"-י.ל. פֶּרֶץ/ הַ"עוֹשֶׂה נִפְלָאוֹת",יח, וְכֵן:"אוֹהֲבִים וַחֲצָאֵי אוֹהֲבִים. אֵלּוּ מְנַעְנְעִים רָאשֵׁיהֶם דֶּרֶךְ צַעַר וְאֵלּוּ מְנַחֲמִים וְאוֹמְרִים הַשֵּׁם יְרַחֵם"- עַגְנוֹן/ תְּמוֹל שִׁלְשׁוֹם, 240, וְכֵן:"מֵהֵיכָן אֲפַרְנֵס אֶת אִשְׁתִּי?...-יְרַחֵם הַשֵּׁם!"- ח.הָזָז/ רַחֲמִים, 211)