Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

38 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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ON THE NILE

My God, the wonder of Thee is astir from
age to age:

isa. 38,19 From the mouth of father to children no false-
hood could be told.

And here is the Nile for witness, that Thou
hast turned it into blood,

Not by magic nor by divination nor by en-
chantment,

But by Thy name, by the hand of Moses
and Aaron,

And the staff which was turned into a serpent.

O be a help unto the servant who hath faith
in Thee,

And who hasteth to behold the places of Thy
wonder.